Re: Transfer to Apple II using tape port?

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

"Gideon Zenz" <gzenz.nospam@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:bnm058$12bj3o$2@ID-188344.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Hi,
>
> I just found a Apple II in my university. It's much fun playing decathlon,
but that's the only disk i found for it.
>
> So I'm thinking about how to transfer more programms to it. I've found
some docs about it, but I neither have a Mac nor a serial
> card or whatever. And, as mentioned, no pro-dos disk etc.
>
> So I thought about transfering data the most simple way - pluging my pc
soundcard into the tape port of the Apple. I'm not sure if
> this is possible at all, but that's my idea:
>
>  - Write a small basic program which reads out a disk on an emulator,
run-length encode it so we spare all those repeating bytes,
> and save it to tape. I found an emulator which supports writing the
tape-i/o as a wave-file to disk.
>
> - Later I connect the pc and mac, write a (hopefully) simple basic program
on the apple so it loads from tape, decodes and writes to
> disk, and then play back the wave file.
>
> If i got it right the tape does 300 bytes per second, so if we can squeeze
the 140kb floppy image to let's say 80kb it should fit
> into the memory (i think one of the many cards in the apple is a
ram-expension so i've got 128kb) and it should just take about 5
> minutes to transfer.
>
> Impossible? Done before? What do you think? And where do i find the docs i
need for Basic? Especially on reading/writing to
> floppy/tape etc?

Why hassle with all that, when there is something already
made up.

Best thing you can do without a serial card would be this:

> http://garberstreet.netfirms.com/AppleCD/ap2222pc.zip

This will require making a special cable, but you can use the
internal 16-pin game port to make transfers of disk images to
the Apple II from your PC. Good Luck.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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