Re: Programming the Apple IIe via the cassette in

[email@luddite.ca (Simon Williams)]

John Syer <jsyer@labyrinth.net.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
>     I have just resurected my Base48 (Apple IIe clone) and found that my
> entire collection of 5.25" floppies have passed on.  I remember in the past
> one of my apple user friends booted his machine via the cassette in (and a
> tape player).  Has anyone thought of connecting the audio output of a Mac or
> PC to the cassette input of the Apple II and sending instructions that way?
> 
>     I do not have a serial card for the Apple so I cannot get an operating
> system to the machine using ADT.
> 
>     If this has not been done, I would be interested in exploring the
> possibilities although I would need an image of dos3.3 or prodos, and
> information about the cassette interface.
> 
> Kind regards,
>     John Syer (jsyerNO@SPAMlabyrinth.net.au)
> [remove the NO SPAM from my email address]

I've succeeded in using my Mac as a very expensive tape recorder. It is
very slow, and takes a bit of fiddling with the levels, but it will
work. I only bothered to save and load some quick BASIC progs, so I'm
not at all sure how you'd go about getting DOS on tape, but I'm sure I
read something about saving binary files to tape....

I've actually been meaning to figure this out so I can post a .wav file
of DOS 3.3 and ProDOS on my site (for exactly this purpose), but I
somehow keep getting sidetracked... perhaps I'm just worried about what
Apple's lawyers would do to me ;-)

-simon

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