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From: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: 2 Questions
Message-ID: <9998@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 90 16:06:37 GMT
References: <8a1b7uy00Uzx81ckhA@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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this article is a followup to an article originally on comp.sys.apple

In article <8a1b7uy00Uzx81ckhA@andrew.cmu.edu> ko0g+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Kevin O'Neill) writes:
>  Q1:  Can I access the 3.5" drive from DOS3.3?

There is a program called AmDos that is either freeware or shareware,
you must use one of these programs to format the 3.5 inch disk, then 
you are left with two volumes of 400K, called drive 1 and drive 3 I think.
I've never tried an amdos formatted disk outside of Amdos, so its possible
if your commercial program were copy protected that this scheme might not
work, but it costs nothing to try.

>       Do I need a more recent version of DOS?  What am I missing here?

DOS 3.3 is the final version of Dos, after that apple went to prodos, 
and many things became much easier to do...

>  Q2:  Can I convert from Applesoft Basic to IBM Basic?

an intermediate step to a mac?  whatever for?  All you need to do is save
your program listing on the apple in ascii format (very simple to do),
then transfer it to the IBM using a communications package of some sort
(Kermit is a good bet) then load the program on the IBM using the switch
for an ascii coded basic program...

Then you have to change it manually to work on your IBM.  Shouldn't be a big
deal...