Description

This article is from the Apple ][ Emulator Resources Guide, by Alex Maddison with numerous contributions by others.

5.1 Creating Disk-Images

There are several methods of creating disk-images, depending upon either personal preference or (more likely) the Apple ][ hardware you have available. The minimum required is an Apple ][ with at least two 5.25" disk drives and a serial card (preferably capable of running ProDOS). It is possible to read an image from a 5.25" drive and transfer it at the same time (if you only have one 5.25" drive, for example). This is covered in 5.2.1, in which case you may skip 5.1.

The options for creating a disk-image are broken up as follows:

- creating segmented disk-images (if you only have two 5.25" drives),

- creating whole disk-images (if you have a storage device larger than 141K, such as a hard-drive or 800K drive)

- creating shrunk disk-images (similar to 5.1.1 but requires extraction software)

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