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From: allred@ut-emx.uucp (Kevin L. Allred)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: apple ][ emulation - how are disk images created?
Summary: no new info yet
Keywords: apple ][ emulation disk images
Message-ID: <39815@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: 16 Nov 90 16:15:44 GMT
References: <39694@ut-emx.uucp>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas
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In article <39694@ut-emx.uucp>, allred@ut-emx.uucp (Kevin L. Allred) writes:
> Does any one know how to create a disk image file from an apple ][
> disk (I will assume that making a serial connection between an Apple
> ][ and a PC is the easy part)?  Is there any way to read an apple ][
> disk directly in a pc drive?

I have not received any helpful information yet, but I am posting this
notice because of the large number of people that have sent me mail,
because they want to know the same thing.  I am going to post the same
inquiry to an appropriate apple news group(s) in that hope that some
of the apple ][ wizards will know what to do.

It seems to me that it would be easy if there were an apple ][ program
that would do a block by block binary read of the and dump the info over a
serial cable to a PC.  The PC would only need to forward everything
coming in on the serial cable into a file.  A nice short direct serial
connection would remove the need for any type of error correcting
protocol.  I suppose the same thing would work even faster between
parallel ports, if the PC had bidirectional ports.

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	Kevin Allred
	allred@emx.cc.utexas.edu
	allred@ut-emx.UUCP