Re: Transfering Disk Images from PC to Apple II

["MechCD" <mechcd@bluebottle.com>]

It was terribly complex for me for some reason. I blame user error on it. I
goofed several times

First, you obtain a super erial (or compatible) card for the Apple II. The
SSC needs to be in slot 2. You then set the baud rate and other settings to
something low to start off with. I chose 300 baud, I probably could have
gone higher. You set the SSC to "terminal" and fire up a terminal program on
a PC. Set its settings to the same ones you set on the SSC. Type "IN#2" on
the Apple without the quotes and start the connection on the PC side.
Anything you type on the PC should show up on the Apple. A regular staright
through serial cable cna be used when the SS is set to "terminal". A 25 pin
to 9 pin adapter will be needed somewhere

Once you have that working, download ADT and paste the sourcecode into the
PC terminal. It will type out the source on the Apple and save it to a disk
(lets hope you have a bootable DOS or ProDOS disk). You can then exit the
terminal, run the program, and transfer whole disks across the serial link.
You might want to pick up some spare disks for this.

I'll admit a lot of this isn't documented in one place and its very
frustrating to figure out on your own. The problems I ran into included
cards being in the wrong slots, a bad cable, and a lack of a bootable disk
with free space. The SSC needs to be in slot 2 mainly because thats where
evryone else puts it. The disk controller should be in slot 6 since thats
where mostdisk software looks for it. I had mine in 7 and it worked fine,
but I had to modify the BSAVE command so it saved to slot 7, disk 1.

"Josiah" <com.yahoo@chibivash81> wrote in message
news:6PXkc.10435$0H1.1129835@attbi_s54...
> > You run the source code onto the Apple through a serial link. You could
do
> > that for just about any program, but it would take a while and wouldn't
> work
> > for some disks.
>
> Would you mind terribley explaining how that would be done? ;-)
> (Or provide a link to good instructions on how to..)
>
>