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From: shaunc@gold.gvg.tek.com (Shaun Case)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Need Apple II disk image -> PC program
Message-ID: <2140@gold.gvg.tek.com>
Date: 5 Apr 91 02:29:22 GMT
Sender: shaunc@gold.gvg.tek.com
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA
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(forgive me if this has been covered before -- I'm new to this
group.)

I recently got a copy of a really neat Apple 2 emulator from Simtel.
Being a past devotee of the Apple ][ family, I find myself with
about 100 disks of Apple ][ software and development tools, but
no Apple.

The problem is, the emulator, while quite complete, uses disk
images of apple disks stored on the PC's hard disk (ie, 143k
binary files, 1 per disk.)  The emulator comes with a single
disk image, which contains Copy II plus, but does not support
any kind of serial IO.  So, the problem is -- how can I get
my Apple ][ disks as binary images on my PC's hard disk?
I can round up an old Apple II with a modem, but I don't want
to transfer files, just an image of the whole disk.  I could
use DDD on the apple side to create the image, but then when
I get it on the PC side, I can't un-DDD it.  

What I would like is an apple term program that will send 
binary images of a disk in an uncompressed format, using
a protocol that does at least some meager error detection
(like Xmodem.)  However, I can't be choosy, so I'll take what
I can get.

The author left no address that I could find in the package;
if anyone has an idea about how to do this, please let me know.

Maybe someone would like to write one (in assembly, for speed,
of course) -- seems like it shouldn't be too hard to do (it
wasn't for the C64) but I don't have an Apple to write it
on, nor space on my desk for one, but I want to run those
Apple II+ programs...


Shaun.