[blindapple] Re: Introduction
- From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blindapple@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 04:34:41 -0500
Hi,
To make a disk image, the easiest way is using a program called Apple Disk
Transfer, or ADT for short.
To do this, your Apple must have a Super Serial card, and you must have a
bootable DOS 3.3 disk. ADT comes in two parts. One part runs on your
Apple, and that's where you type all commands. The other part runs on a PC
running DOS, Windows or Linux. Except for setting port and speed, you do
absolutely nothing at the PC end during an ADT session.
Getting ADT is a bit difficult. The easiest way to get it is on a disk
image, which presents a nice chicken and egg situation as you would need ADT
to convert the disk image with ADT on it into a real disk so you can use
ADT. So instead of that there are a few other ways. There's a file called
adt.dmp which will dump ADT to your Apple, and save it to disk. Also, if
you were interested, I could send a cassette interface dump of ADT. Your
Apple 2E has a cassette interface that is a holdover from the days when the
disk drives were not available and standard cassettes were the only means of
program and data storage. I could make a cassette dump and give you
instructions for loading it into your E and saving it.
Once ADT's going, it is quite easy to convert disks. One note though. The
DOS version, at least the version I played with, likes to send data as fast
as it can, which on faster systems is too fast for the Apple to handle. So
I'd recommend either using Windows or Linux, or using a slower machine with
DOS.
New Apple hardware is hard to come by. A few people are still making things
though. If you have access to Usenet newsgroups, check out the newsgroup
comp.sys.apple2. There, you will find many people who know many things
about the Apple II line of computers.
Jayson.
----- Original Message -----
From: <K4lid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindapple@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:22 AM
Subject: [blindapple] Re: Introduction
> Hi Jason. Since I am not a game person, I have some games that came on
> Home 1 and Home 2. Do you remember a-talk Magazine later Appletalk and
> the recorded magazine Baud by peter Schelli? I really liked
> thosemagazines. I still have all of the magazines I think some where on
> disk. I don't know how to make an image of a disk as you are
> describing. Prowords 1.1 and 1.4c is a program written for the blind by
> the blind. It is most handy. I could never figure out how to use some
> of the commands on the prodosusers disk. I bought the recorded
> programmanual from Aph back in 92. While not knowing, I imagine that
> new hardware for the Apples are unavailable now. Tom.
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