Re: Reading apple disks on PC

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"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
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> In article <BvATa.56060$EZ2.15949@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>,
> news.verizon.net <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It is a kind offer, but since the FID code works with DSK images instead
of
> > dealing with physical disks I don't think the code would really help.
>
> You have obviously not looked at that code.....
>
> It has a (logical) "Read Sector" function, which of course only
> indexes into the DSK image and copies a 256-byte block from there.
> But if you replace that with a function which reads a real sector off
> a real disk, then the file system parts ought to work fine if it's an
> Apple DOS 3.3 disk.  Yep, I had that possibility in mind when I wrote
> that code .... no I don't have any concrete plans in that direction,
> but OTOH you'll never know what use your code may find.

The "function which reads a real sector" is the part that's hard to write.
Once we can read the physical media, the process of making a DSK file is a
piece of cake.

- Mike