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From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: apple II emulation on an 286+ system
Message-ID: <2917.27453131@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 90 17:46:40 GMT
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In article <39817@ut-emx.uucp>, allred@ut-emx.uucp (Kevin L. Allred) writes:
> I downloaded the Apple ][ emulator that runs on 286+ machines from the
> SIMTEL20 archives in the emulation directory.  The code was apparently
> written in 1988 by Randy Spurlock, but the ZIP archive and all the
> files are dated 1990.  The documentation is extremely brief.
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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 disk 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 particular PC had bidirectional ports.

My roommate and his friend wrote two pieces of software, one for the PC and 
one for the Apple, that would transfer disks exactly like the way you 
mentioned. They are both very short, nofrills programs. (I don't think they 
even have any options. Since they are short, I'll try to get them and post 
them right here. Maybe everyone can persuade them to had some more options 
to them!!

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