Category: Disk Imaging
This has been a big hunk of work! I have completely reworked large portions of the low-level architecture of the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller client software. The first fruit of this endeavor is that if you have an Apple SuperDrive, you can now image High Density (1.44MB) disks! The Fast and Flux Imagers for 3.5 disks supports imaging 1.44M and 720K disks with an Apple SuperDrive. If you are Fast Imaging non-Apple disks (like MS-DOS), then you can save them…
Brutal Deluxe’s Antoine Vignau has announced the release of the first batch of Applesauce disk images from his personal collection. The entire collection of disk images is available and freely downloadable from Archive.org’s repository at:https://archive.org/details/Antoine_Vignau_3.5_Floppies_Flux_May_2019_Batch
Nishida Radio, makers of the disk emulator, UNISDisk, have announce that all units have sold out for 2014. No new orders will be taken for some time. According to Koichi Nishida’s posting on his website, he needs some time off to deal with some health issues that have arisen. For more information about the UNISDisk or orther Nishida Radio products, check out their website at: http://tulip-house.ddo.jp/DIGITAL/english.html
The Virtual Apple II website database version 1.27 is now available. Those users who are using emulator apps which rely upon the Virtual Apple II database for their apps and data can download the latest version. This latest update includes new data for over 200 apps as well as a number of new games that were not in the previous version. Virtual Apple is an online disk repository for the Apple II computer which features disks, manuals, as well as…
Quite a lot has happened since last time. Let’s take a look at what’s new in the world of Apple II! David Schmenk has made an Apple II card that will interface with the Raspberry Pi. It is called Apple II Pi. A new utility called Spyglass is an online disk image browser that will show disassemblies, hi-res graphics, and BASIC listings. It is in beta and will be improved in the coming weeks. Option8 is selling Apple IIe card…
Today’s Mac GUI Vault update brings enhanced file catalogs to over 70% of the 27,000 files currently in the Vault archive; that’s almost 19,000 files. These file catalogs are in the search database too, so you can use them to find the programs that you’re looking for. Some files, such as BinHex and BinSCII, will often have a description of the program in them; this description has also been copied out and is searchable. The following file formats are cataloged:…
The Latest version of Brendan Robert’s Apple // Game Server is now available from the Apple // Game Server Sourceforge website. Of particular note with version 3.1 of Apple // Game Server is the requirement of Java 6 on machines using the Apple // Game Server progam. The Apple // Game Server allows the user to send floppies directly to the Apple II computer over a serial connection, eliminating the need for floppies to play games on an original Apple II series…
The latest version of Apple Disk Transfer (ADTPro) has been released. According to the press release from David Schmidt, “This release understands ShrinkIt-shrunk disk images, and treats them like any other disk image. To be clear, ADTPro won’t create new SDKs – but it’ll unpack existing ones and write them to a real disk of appropriate size. Going the other way – from real disk to image – ADTPro will always create normal DOS-ordered (for 5.25″ disks) or ProDOS ordered…
David Schmidt, author of the popular Apple Disk Transfer (ADT) program for the Apple II, announced that the latest version, available now, has the ability to transfer ShrinkIt disk archives to Apple II computers. This functionality means that it is no longer required to use an emulator or another means to convert the .sdk file into a .dsk image. Therefore, much time is saved. This new version of ADTPro also fixes a few other bugs. Download ADTPro 1.2.2 at SourceForge.
David Schmidt has released an update to the ADTPro disk imaging package. ADTPro allows users to convert Apple ][ and Apple /// disks to digital images for use with emulators. According to the press release on CSA2, “This release has a couple of snazzy things that folks won’t need to see very often: The bare-metal bootstrapper works in about 1/3 the time it did before. It now shifts the serial hardware into high gear to transmit the bulk of the…
AppleCommander, the Java based disk image tool by Dr. John B. Matthews has been updated. Version 1.3.5.10 was released this morning on Dr. Matthews’ webpage. AppleCommander allows you to open Apple ][ disk images and view their content down to the individual files. You can also use AppleCommander to import and export files from the disk images, as well as to convert disk images from one type to another. The current release features changes made by David Schmidt. They include…
Egan Ford, creator and curator of the Apple ][ Game Server and the Apple ][ Disk Server has created mobile versions of the website. This allows those users with iPhones to use the iOS based device to load their Apple ][ computer with games or disks directly from the Internet. The mobile version of the Apple ][ Game Server is at: http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver/mobile.html The Apple ][ Disk Server mobile version is currently being built and will be available soon. now…
Brendon Robert has re-worked the Apple ][ classic, Lemonade so that “It is no longer yelling”. Lemonade was one of the original Apple ][ games included on cassette tape with the 1977 version of the original Apple ][ computer. The original program was written all in capital letters as the Apple ][ originally did not have lower case. Lemonade is a game which is meant to teach fundamental marketing to elementary aged school children. The basic idea is that the…
Egan ford has added the entire Apple ][ collection from Virtual Apple’s website to the Apple ][ Disk Server. The Apple Disk Server version 0.991 now has over 1500 disks that are ready to go on your Apple ][. This update was made possible by a contribution of a partial section of the Virtual Apple ][ database by Bill Martens. You can access the Apple ][ disk server at: http://asciiexpress.net/diskserver/
The C2T Binary Conversion program created by Egan Ford has now been officially released. The program was created out of the need for a tool to convert Apple II files and disk images to audio files. These audio files are used by the Apple ][ Game server Online as well as the Apple ][ Disk Server. Egan has written a complete documentation and breakdown of the C2T conversion program at: http://asciiexpress.net/files/c2t.html You can download the complete binary and source code…
In what Egan Ford is calling a completed release, the Apple ][ Game Server and the Apple ][ Disk Server have been updated. The updates included adjusting the speed to a slightly lower speed for transfers as the higher speeds initially listed as hi-fi were causing some issues and a higher rate of failure in the transfers between the Apple ][ and the PC. Be sure and check out Egans work at: http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver http://asciiexpress.net/diskserver
Egan Ford has updated his new Apple ][ Disk Server once again. The Apple ][ Disks Server allows the user to connect their audio port to the Apple ][‘s cassette i/o port and load complete disk images to the floppy drive. This process now takes less than three minutes according to a note from Egan. Improvements between version 3 and version 6 include: To use the Apple ][ Disk Server, go to the Disk Server website at: http://asciiexpress.net/diskserver/
Egan Ford has been busy with finding new ways to utilize the cassette port on the Apple ][ computer. His Apple ][ Game Server is now at version 0.5 and has a number of improvements in speed and methodologies of loading the programs onto real and emulated Apple ][ computers. Version 0.5 includes the following updates: Boosted audio volume from 50% to 75%. Added MON download option (Apple Monitor text for pasting into emulators). Right-click to save it. You can…
Brutal Deluxe Software has published the first three videos in a their Apple II Cracking Senses series. The video series is designed to teach the current generation of Apple ][ fans what it takes to crack old software from the 1980’s game by game. While much of this software is long abandoned through either non-existence of the company that made it or through the loss of the original code by the author, it is an interesting insight into what these…
Egan Ford has now taken his Apple ][ Game Server a step further and created an Apple ][ Disk Server. The concept of the server is that it allows you to reconstitute an entire floppy disk through the cassette input/output port of the Apple ][ computer. This is accomplished using old 1970’s style data sound playing through the cassette Port directly to the computer. The Apple ][ then writes the data to the disk one the disk writer is initiated…
