Subject: Re: Transfering Apple IIGS disks via OASIS
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An emulator package for MS Windows. It comes with a very well crafted
emulator with adjustable slot support, real time serial port access,
printer access, up to 1 meg ram, adjustable color and text color. The
latest version supports a full screen mode as long as your hardware
can handle it and you have Direct Draw installed. There is support
for TTF text only full screen but it is hard to get decent output
from anything which uses mousetext.

Along with this package you get the Disk Manager program that allows
you to copy/move files between MS disks and Apple disk images. It has
a disk server which can host disks to the II via the joystick port
on the II motherboard and the PC parallel port. There are also
utilities which let you share disks between Apples, whether they are
real or emulated, as long as they have serial support. This is my
most used application. It is very easy to configure and run. Set up
the system to startup this way with a custom configuration.

It allows you to start the emulator from Windows by clicking on a
disk image. It will also launch the emulator via the Disk Manager.
You can save the emulator state to different files and set it to
save on a timed schedule. This is great for those adventure games
which don't save or when you are about to try something stupid and
don't want to loose your characters. You can also launch the saved
state files from Windows. I use this for various things. My normal
setup is blank so I can launch disks from Windows or Disk Manager
and no other disks interfere. I also have a saved state with the full
one meg ram and an Appleworks 800k image and another setup for easy
access to my programming tools.

There is more, it supports CPM, clock card (host time), mouse,
multiple disk images and keyboard shortcuts for changing disk images
it also includes the rom image from the authors clone system. I
prefer the IIe rom image myself, but it allows new users to run the
emulator.

I have used this system for a few years and the author is dedicated
to it's growth (along with other projects). It is shareware and the
distributed unregistered system will time out the emulator in 30
minutes. The Disk Manager is limited to moving files.

Registration is cheap and easy, it's only $25 and you will never get
a real Apple which can do all this for the price. BTW, this program
is one of the few reasons I ever run Windows on my system.

If you want to test it out, there is a link on my site, listed
below.

If it sounds like I am advertising for the author, I am. Teodor is a
friend and I have beta tested this system for a long time. IMHO, he
easily deserves the shareware fee.

-- 

Thank you for your time and interest. I hope it was helpful
or at least interesting.

Phoenyx,

Apple2 user since March 1984

Links to Phoenyx's pages:
preferred..... http://zip.to/Phoenyx_A2
alternate..... http://www.tinyangeldesigns.com/Apple2