Subject: Re: how to make disks images
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nicolas raggueneau writes ...
> 
> here's the point : how can i make images of my apple 2 disks,
> in order to play with my old games in my much too powerful pc?


     On your enhanced Apple IIe, //c, IIc+, or IIgs, use DSK2FILE to convert
the games to .dsk disk image files. Transfer the .dsk files to your PC using a
NULL modem connection. For more details, see the file Csa2T2TCOM.txt on Ground
or one of the other Csa2 FAQs sites ...

Home site- for downloading or Viewing via an FTP program ...
  ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/
 
Mirrors- for on-line perusing via Netscape, etc. ...
  http://www.grin.net/~cturley/A2.FAQs.and.INFO/CSA2.FAQs/
  ftp://apple.cabi.net/pub/applegs/FAQs.and.INFO/A2.Csa2.FAQs/


     An alternative is to try ADT v1.21 or ap2222pc. These are two different
ways to transfer whole disks to PC. Below is some info on these utilities ...

>>


file adt121.zip at ...
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/utility/


Ronny Svedman <rosv4119@student.uu.se>

ADT (Apple Disk Transfer) is available from the asimov archives, both the PC
end and the apple end. The only hook/problem with using ADT is getting the ADT
program onto an apple disk for the first time. What you do is that you set your
Super Serial Card to 300 bps, no parity, strip 8th bit. Then you boot your
AppleII with dos 3.3 from a disk with some free space, type IN#<whatever slot
your SSC is in>, and use a PC terminal program to Ascii-upload the ADT utility.
The author has provided a text file that enters the monitor, types itself into
memory, and BSAVE's itself to the disk. Amazingly clever!

Then, you reboot the apple, setup adt for desired port, speed & diskdrive, do
the same on the PC, and Voila: it works.

From here it is really straightforward: you control everything from the apple
side, using simple commands (there is good on-screen help).



Transferring Disk Images PC--> Apple II

ADT does this for you, simply put a formatted 16-sector disk in the drive. (dos
3.3) if you download a ProDOS image onto a dos 3.3 formatted disk thats no
problm, since ADT writes ALL of the disk, so you get a bootable ProDOS disk
from a bootable ProDOS image. likewise with pascal and Apple Cp/M disks.



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"Jack" <Jacked_72@yahoo.com>

I solved all my problems last night in getting ADT to work.  Here's what
finally worked

1.  Set the Serial Card to 300 baud.  (All settings on the DIP switches
referenced in the ADT readme file stay the same except for SW1-1 and SW1-2
which should be set to "on."

2.  I used Hyperterminal and set it to Com 1, TTY protocol, 300 bps, no parity,
1 stop bit, Xon/Xoff.

3.  The pinning for the null modem cable in the ADT readme file was not right
for me.  Here's what worked (note that its only 4 pins):

9pin      25pin

2       --     2
3       --     3
4       --     20
5       --     7

I made the cable from a serial extension cable that had  female and male 9 pin
connectors..  I took off the casing on the male end, recorded which wires went
to which pins and then heated up the pins to pull them out of the plastic. 
Once I got the pins out, I soldered  pins to wires 2-5.  I simply plugged these
into the corresponding holes on the 25 pin connector on the serial card.  I did
connect a ground to the Apple.

Also when I uploaded the second ADT file (the configuration file) from the PC
to the Apple, I had to set the line delay to 300 milliseconds.  It did not work
right when I had it set for 0 seconds.

The Adt.dmp file seemed to lock up my PC at first (before I got the cabling,
etc. right).  So I created a "test" file in Notepad which consisted of the word
"test."  Then I just uploaded the test.txt file to the Apple.  This worked a
lot quicker than the Adt.dmp file and it let me know that I got the connections
right.

After I got the two ADT files uploaded, I set the DIP switches bact to 19200
baud (SW1-1 and SW1-4 to off) and it worked like a charm.


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Gianni Barberi <gianni@unforgettable.com>
 
I just made a cable and used ADT121.zip. This is a wondeful program that
uploads itself into the apple.

After much debate and suggestions in the newsgroup I finally connected the two
and they're talking fluently via ADT. The answer is the most obvious: just
connect Transmit Data to Receive Data and viceversa. Join Ground as well is a
good thing, but I did transfer ADT on my Apple with just 1 wire !
I found it in the most empirical way: shuffling the wires till some garbage
came on the screen. So I discovered as well that Apple used its own numbering
on the DIN plug.

Here are the connections, you can read the pin numbers on all the plugs.

Apple // c DIN        PC DB9        PC DB25

5                           2                  3
4                           3                  2
2                           5                  7

That's All Folks !


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AP2222PC

file ap2222pc.zip at ...
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/utility/


From:  Bill Mackin

003- Is there a way to transfer Apple II disks between a an Apple II
     and a PC?

     Sure. Yesterday I downloaded ap2222pc.zip.  It was written by some guy in
Hong Kong.  You buy a 25-pin male parallel port connector and two 8-pin DIP
sockets from Radio Shack.  He gives the wiring diagram for connecting 9 wires
between them.  You type in a 6502 assembly program on your apple at address
300. Save the program, shut things off, hook up the wire from your PC printer
port to the Apple Game Controller socket, turn them on, and run his programs.

     It copies whole Apple disk images over to the PC, or PC to Apple, or
individual files back and forth!  It works great!  I've already made 26 disk
images from my old Apple disks (great for backup, too!) and have been  playing
the games from them, moving games around, etc.

     I only had one problem with the ap2222pc program; the first time I ran it,
my PC was already in Windows and I had printed something to a HP LaserJet IV
from it; when I turned the Apple on after hooking up the cable, the Apple
locked up, giving me several different hi-res graphics screens in series, no
beep, and no cursor.  The problem went away when I turned the Apple on first,
then the PC.

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