Re: Disk transfers help please

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Simon" <no.spam@no.spam> wrote in message 42D0C978.F3186C4E@no.spam">news:42D0C978.F3186C4E@no.spam...
: Thanks for the replies !
: I have no serial port indeed, so, sadly, ADT won't help.
:
: > But he has no serial port on the II so ADT won't help. However, he could
: > try Apple Oasis which can transfer using a custom cable connecting PC
: > parallel port to II joystick internal connector.
:
: Oh, I didn't know about this. That would be great, I'll try and find how
: it works.

Try this. It does PC serial port to Apple II Game port.

http://garberstreet.netfirms.com/Downloads/Zips/ap2222pc.zip

: > As for the double sided disk issue, the Apple II disk drives only
: > support one side of the disk. Some people including some companies would
: > use the back side but in practice, this could be risky to the data on
: > the disk. These disks were often called 'flippy disks'.
:
: Thanks a lot. Almost all the disks I have here are 'flippy'! The B-sides
: run fine on the Apple II but the PC disk drive doesn't recognize them.
: I have several disk copy utilities and tried to copy, on the Apple II,
: the B-Sides back to the A-side of a blank disk, then transfer them.
: Seems it works more or less, but the problem is that a disk copy on the
: Apple with only 1 disk drive takes ages and lots of disk swapping - I
: won't have time to copy 20 or 30 disks like this.
:
: I'm going back to DISK2FDI docs, maybe I can tell this program to use
: the 2nd head of the PC disk drive to make an image.

Using the 2nd head won't work, the disk is spinning the wrong way on the
other side.

Apple II Forever, Apple II Together
Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez
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