07.007 Can I read Apple II diskettes on my PC?
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This article is from the Apple II Csa2 FAQ, by Jeff Hurlburt with numerous contributions by others.
07.007 Can I read Apple II diskettes on my PC?
Yes. There is a way for some PCs to read Apple II DOS 3.3 and ProDOS 5.25"
floppies which are not copy-protected.
By "some PCs" I mean that the PC must have two floppy drives (only one has
to be a 5.25" drive) and it must be running MS-DOS or Windows 95, 98, or ME.
(It won't work with NT, 2000, and XP).
You also need a program called "DISK2FDI". (For a link to the program, see
Csa21MAIN4.txt.)
DISK2FDI reads the Apple floppy and creates a disk image (.do) on the PC.
These images will work on most emulators.
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By: Rubywand
You may find that DISK2FDI has difficulty reading some sectors which read
fine on your real Apple II. If that happens, try making a fresh copy of the
diskette using Disk Muncher or some other fast whole-disk copier.
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By: Chris Norley
A while back I requested some information regarding the reading of Apple
II floppies by an PC:
ORIGINAL POST:
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We have some old data from a small NMR spectrometer that was run from an
Apple IIe. The same spectrometer is now run from a DOS machine and we'd like to
be able to access the old data from the PC.
Does anyone know of or possess some utility to allow the data from the 5
1/4" Apple II floppies to be read from the PC? Any hints as to program names,
ftp sites, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
SUMMARY OF RESPONSES:
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>From uli@izfm.uni-stuttgart.de
>From news ...
Les Ferch
There is a card called the MatchPoint PC card that will let you read and write
Apple II DOS, ProDOS, and CP/M disks on a PC 5.25" 360K drive. We used to have
one installed in an XT here and it worked fine.
The other common way of moving the data is to connect an Apple II to a PC using
a NULL modem cable and using comm programs such as Kermit to transfer the data.
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Michael Hoffberg
About a year ago, I picked up card for my ibm made by TrackStar. It is
basically an apple II that sits inside your IBM. When you enable it, it can
boot off an apple drive, it uses the ibm keyboard and monitor.
In any case, I think that it is possible to transfer files between the IBM and
Apple II with the card.
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Fred R. Opperdoes
Any Apple II (E or GS) owner having an Applied Engineering PC Transporter card
is able to do the job easily. It is maybe not easy to find such a person in
your neighborhood.
Another possibility would be that you ask someone with an Apple IIGS to have
your 5 1/4" Dos 3.3 or Prodos disk transcribed to a 3.5" Prodos disk. Every
IIGS owner would be able to do so. Files on such disks can then easily be
converted to MsDOS files on an MsDOS disk on a Macintosh using the Apple File
Exchange Utility that comes with every modern Mac.
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Leonard Erickson
You can use a COPYIIPC deluxe option board or some such. Central Point Software
used to sell them.
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By: Peter Maloney
You could use an Apple Turnover, a PC/XT card that allows older IBM floppy
drives to read/write Apple 5.25" diskettes. It was made by Vertex Systems Inc..
By: Rubywand, Brian Hammack, Jay, Joan Sander, Simon Williams
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