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Apple 2e 5.25" disk to cd

5.25 to CD

5.25 to CD

Hi,
Yes there is. But there has to be no copy protection. The disks have to be disk imaged, from there they have to be transfered to the Mac or PC. They are working on a way to disk image nibble images.
Some disk imanges still may not work with emulators, like Mystery House, and Corruption. They have a special DOS that the emulators do not know how to interupt.

There are a few FTP sites that already have the disk imaged. If you are going to disk image your own then you also need a way to get them to the Pc or Mac. Never done it with the cables route. Me I have used a IIgs and a 100meg zip cart after the HD. This way I can D/L ones I do not have and put others on a zip cart for storage until full. I will have to start using the Compact Flash drive on a card when I have time.

From the Zip you can start to drag them to HD folder to be put on to a CD or DVD. The hard part is naming and keeping track of everything.

Hope this helps.
Take care
 
Apple Disk Transfer

Apple Disk Transfer

I'm very interested in the topic of imaging floppies right now. I'm try to get the 500 or so floppies of mine on optical disk to preserve them before they all suffer from bit rot.

I recently started this effort. 300 of the 500 disks are PC disks, so I thought that would be a good, easy way to start. I was quite shocked to find out that about a third of the diskettes have had read errors! So now is the time to be archiving those disks!

I did some research what appears to be the best image format for a number of the old formats.

For the Apple 2, non-copy protected diskettes, I think the best approach is to use a program called Apple Disk Transfer. It's described here: http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FLUTILS.html#006

The issue with A2 disks, of course, is that it uses a different method of encoding the data stream and clock pulses into the signal that's written to the floppy. It's referred to as group code recording (GCR), which can't be read by standard PC floppy disk controllers (they use MFM controllers).

So the basic idea with ADT is that you're running a program that reads the floppy, transfers it over the serial port to a PC, and another program writes the image to a disk file. So it's the Apple that does the reading.

I haven't tried it yet.

One consideration is that I've run across imaging approaches that are designed to read a floppy and create a disk image for use in a PC-based emulator. While this is fine, I also would like to be able to write back a floppy because I have the old hardware!

Finally, the other possiblility is the Catweasel Mk 4 card. It's a universal floppy controller that can plug into a PCI slot.

I did happen to buy one, but I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. I'm still having fun with all of those PC floppies!

I will say that the Catweasel software is a little basic. I need to play with it more to gain a better understanding of what it's doing. However, given that this is a rare peripheral to have, I'd like to exhaust more generic disk imaging methods first before resorting to it.
 
Apple Disk Transfer

Apple Disk Transfer

I am one of the maintainers of the ADT program, and wrote the ADTPro program. One advantage ADTPro as a software solution might have is that it's cross-platform - the server can run on Macs as well as PCs. And it can even use the Apple cassette ports if you don't have a serial card, but that's definitely an investment in time.

I put some instructions together if anyone is interested in transferring disks back and forth, or wants to get an old Apple bootstrapped:
http://adtpro.sourceforge.net
 
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