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skriefal@eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu (Scott Kriefall) writes:

>Can someone inform me of the FTP site for the Apple Emulator and related
>disk images?  I seem to have misplaced this information...

wilbur.stanford.edu has the emulator and a small collection of disk
images.

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Anyone actually gone back the other way - from disk image back to disk?  I have
an Apple II at home, and Sparkee looks interesting.  I love ceemac and some
new scripts would be a lot of fun (sure wish someone would write one
of those for my SPARC at work!).

Anyways, what would I need to do to get a disk image out of the .dsk file?

Normally, in the Apple world, we use a format (similar to Zoo or Arc) called
NuFX to store files or Disk images.  There is a MS-DOS compatible decoder
called nulib (it also compiles on Unix and I think VMS) which can extract
the data from the compressed archive.

For posting, there is this nifty Apple format called BinSCII .  The neat
thing is that one does not need to trim off News headers or sort the entries
into any particular order - the info needed is embedded in the first few bytes
of the encoded file so that the decoder (a program called sciibin - also
available for compiling on MS-DOS) can create the .SHK file properly.

I mention these so that folk could, if they wanted, look through the various
Apple II archives and perhaps get some interesting shareware or freeware
from those sources.
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lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:

>Anyone actually gone back the other way - from disk image back to disk?  I have
>an Apple II at home, and Sparkee looks interesting.  I love ceemac and some
>new scripts would be a lot of fun (sure wish someone would write one
>of those for my SPARC at work!).

>Anyways, what would I need to do to get a disk image out of the .dsk file?

I believe you can take a disk image (probably have to put it into
ProDos disk format (i.e., build tthe inverse of the mapper program
(available on wilbur)) and then use the D suboption to append in
nulib.

Something like, given sparkee.dsk you could do

%nulib ad sparkee.shk sparkee.dsk

and then put the shk file on your apple an run with it.  This is
untested, use at your own risk...

[BTW, it was this feature I was thinking out when commenting on
dsk_in.]

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In article <1993Jan11.192543.8496@cas.org> lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
>Anyone actually gone back the other way - from disk image back to disk?  I have

That needn't be that hard.  In case folks don't know, a .DSK is just
all the sectors of a DOS 3.3 disk in order: the first 256 bytes are
the first sector of the first track, etc ... up to the end of track 34.

I see that the Stamford archivist points out how one could do this with
the disk as a whole and nulib.  If one wants to do it a file at a time,
that wouldn't be so hard either.

>an Apple II at home, and Sparkee looks interesting.  I love ceemac and some
>new scripts would be a lot of fun (sure wish someone would write one
>of those for my SPARC at work!).

A ceemac enthusiast!  I'd love to see what has been produced since 1983
(the date of the newest file on the Sparkee disk, written in ceemac.)


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