Re: How to... ??? (Prolly a FAQ, but haven't spotted the answer)

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Nice tutorial, pszBob!
-Paul

"pszBob" <pszBob@[DONTSENDSPAM]hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Mvvxa.28181$oQ3.1351597@twister.socal.rr.com...
> Wow, this is almost the exact same problem I had, except with my dumpster
> rescued GS.
>
> Here's what you do:
>
> 1. Dump DOS 3.3 (which you already did)
> 2. Download ADTWin (Apple Disk Transfer) from
> ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Emulators/ADTgs91.zip
> 3. Unzip it into a directory of your choice
> 4. The kinda difficult part
>     4.1 - Select the ADT dump that's right for you
>         There's 2 hex dumps of ADT in this distribution, one for SSC or
the
> Apple hi speed comm card
>         4.1.1 - SSC - \SCHLYTER\adt_ss.dmp (dump this like you did with
dos)
>         4.1.2 - CC - \SCHLYTER\adt_cc.dmp (dump this like you did with
dos)
> 5. Once dumped, ADT will automatically BSAVE itself onto the floppy drive
> (use a floppy with at least 20 blocks free space, preferably a freshly
> INITed DOS3.3 disk.)
> 6. BRUN ADT from your the disk
> 7. Run ADT.EXE on the PC side,
> 8. Make sure the speed matches on both ends, and that ADT is writing to
the
> desired drive (it defaults to drive #2, which is incorrect for me)
> 9. Read the README from the ADTWin distro, and you're on your way!
>
>
> "Don Bruder" <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote in message
> news:IRtxa.14900$JX2.905788@typhoon.sonic.net...
> >
> > OK, here's my situation:
> > Multiple (about 8-10) "dumpster recovery" //es, sevearl of them
> > physically smashed, but electrically intact. By cannibalizing cases,
> > keyboards, and other smashed but not "broken" bits and pieces, and a
> > couple judicious applcations of the soldering iron to replace snapped
> > off capacitors and repeair similarly damage on cards, I've gotten a pair
> > of 99.9% intact machines running. Both are now "Enhanced //e" units.
> > They've got disk controllers, ext. 80 column cards, Apple SSC II cards,
> > accelerators, memory cards, and assorted other "toys" jacked into them,
> > and they're ready to rock-n-roll once again. No drives when recovered,
> > but I've hit the local salvation army-type store and now have a stack of
> > 5.25" drives to go with them, and several dozen (perhaps a couple of
> > hundred) "MECC" disks of educational (but pretty well useless to me)
> > software. I've grabbed the "ADTandDOS33DMP" file, but there is no "ADT"
> > in it... just the DOS33DMP, which I have transferred as directed, (with
> > a little adaptation, since I'm a Mac man, not a Wintel user) and
> > successfully used the resulting "install" to init some disks soI at
> > least have a DOS to work with. All is good there, but I keep seeing
> > references to a program called "ADT" (or is it "AOT"? references seem to
> > conflict, though "ADT" seems more likely to be proper) that will help me
> > transfer disk images to the //e. But so far,I haven't managed to figure
> > out where to get it, and once gotten, how to get it onto the //e so I
> > can actually put it to use. The closest I've found has been "DKS2FILE",
> > which I've grabbed, but I'm still in the dark as to how to get it onto
> > the //e in operational form (The copy I have is in a .shk archive, which
> > means, obviously, that I need to un-shk it. But doing that needs the
> > ability to do un-shk, which is presumably contained in a .dsk file I've
> > downloaded, but likewise can't figure out how to get onto the //e to run
> > it)
> >
> > ARGH!!! That's some catch, that catch-22!
> >
> > Anybody care to jump in and help? Or point me to the answer that I've
> > apparently overlooked? TIA...
> >
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> > clear" and regularly checked.)
> >
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