[Blindapple] Anyone still here? And a few software requests

Jayson Smith ratguy at insightbb.com
Wed Jan 20 13:33:35 EST 2010 

Okay, here you go. Before starting, insure the Apple and PC can successfully 
communicate over the serial port, but that goes without saying!

1. Start with a scratch disk formatted as DOS 3.3, and have DOS 3.3 booted.
2. Send this program to the Apple.

--- Start of program

 430 START = 8192:BUF = 9000: FOR A = START TO START + 28
 440  READ V: POKE A,V: NEXT
 450  DATA 
169,32,160,8,32,217,3,96,1,96,1,0,17,15,25,32,40,35,0,0,1,0,0,96,1,0,1,239,216
 460 R = 1:W = 2


--- End of program

3. Run this program. There should be no output.
4. Type this command.
bsave disk access,a8192,l29
5. Now send this program to the Apple. If your serial connection is not in 
slot 1, replace PR#1 with PR#X where X is the proper slot number.

--- Start of program

 0  PRINT  CHR$ (4),"BLOAD DISK ACCESS"
 1  GET A$
 2 A$ = ""
 3 CR$ =  CHR$ (13)
 4  PR# 1
 10  FOR T = 0 TO 34
 20  FOR S = 0 TO 15
 30  POKE 8204,T: POKE 8205,S
 40  CALL 8192
 50  FOR N = 9000 TO 9255
 60  PRINT  PEEK (N);: PRINT CR$;
 70  NEXT N: NEXT S: NEXT T
 80  GET A$
 90  PR# 0

--- End of program

6. Save this program. Type
save send disk
7. Although I seriously doubt this program will damage anything, until you 
know it's working properly, I would suggest trying it on disks that either 
you don't care about, or you have multiple copies, or can quickly make a 
throwaway copy in case something goes wrong. I think this is an unnecessary 
precaution, but better to waste a few minutes making copies than risk losing 
irreplaceable software!
8. When you run this program, nothing is printed. When disk activity stops, 
remove your disk and insert the disk to be imaged. At this point, start a 
capture buffer session or ASCII receive on your PC. When that's set up, and 
the disk is inserted, press any key to begin the transfer. It will take a 
few minutes, as the data is transferred sector by sector. Should you hear 
the dreaded buzzzzzzzz! of a disk head recalibration, DOS had trouble 
reading that sector, so its contents are probably not valid. Hopefully you 
won't get much of that!
9. To know when the program is done, just listen to the disk drive. If a 
long time goes by without the motor coming on, chances are it's done. Also, 
if you have Textalker loaded, it will probably say "Ready" when it's done. A 
twiddle dump works wonders here!
10. Stop your capture or ASCII receive. What you will have is a file 
containing lots of numbers. Send this file to me privately. For best 
results, I'd recommend sending the files as attachments, and if you want to 
save bandwidth, zip them. Since it's all numbers, they should zip up quite 
nicely. My address, scrambled for spam prevention, is.
rat guy at insightbb dot com.
11. I will take your file and turn it into a disk image, hopefully! Until we 
can see if this is going to work, please don't go all out and crazy, imaging 
every disk you have. Just image one or two, to make sure this is working. 
It's been years since I used these programs, and I wrote them for my own 
use, never figuring on anyone else using them.
Hope this helps!
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis Bryant" <louis at braillesoft.net>
To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindapple] Anyone still here? And a few software requests


> Hi. I'd love to! This seems really cool! Thanks.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
> To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 10:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] Anyone still here? And a few software requests
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>     I just posted to the Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.apple2. I'm going to
>> have to find out if there's a version of Apple Disk Transfer that works
>> with
>> the GS ports and can send disk images. I know I had a version for the GS
>> ports, but it could only receive images, not send them. In the meantime, 
>> I
>> do have a very crude way you could get images to me if you wanted. It
>> would
>> involve you sending a few Basic programs to your Apple to save on a disk,
>> then using them to send disk images to the PC, which would then have to 
>> be
>> sent to me to create .dsk files. It would only let you send images, not
>> receive them. If you're interested in pursuing this avenue until we can
>> get
>> something better going, please let me know.
>> Thanks!
>> Jayson
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Louis Bryant" <louis at braillesoft.net>
>> To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:54 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] Anyone still here? And a few software requests
>>
>>
>>> Hi. I only have the internal ports to my knowledge. I don't know much
>>> about
>>> the GS hardware. I do have an Apple IIgs to PC serial port also and can
>>> send
>>> ASCII text back-and-forth, but I haven't tried any others. Any help you
>>> can
>>> give will be quite awesome, as I want more stuff for this thing from
>>> online.
>>> People still build software and downloadable disk images for it and I
>>> want
>>> to experiment and see what they've got on a2central.com. HTH.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
>>> To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:48 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] Anyone still here? And a few software requests
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>     I know you have a GS, since we've talked before. But, do you have a
>>>> Super Serial card or just the internal GS ports? I can probably figure
>>>> out
>>>> some way for you to get me a disk image. Do you have, or can you get,
>>>> your
>>>> GS hooked up to a PC via serial port?
>>>> Thanks. I'd love to get this disk!
>>>> Jayson
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Louis Bryant" <louis at braillesoft.net>
>>>> To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:29 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] Anyone still here? And a few software 
>>>> requests
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi. I do have Talking writer with Talking Writer, Dragon Maze, Space
>>>>> Invaders, Music Game, Voice Control, ETC. I can mail you a copy, 
>>>>> unless
>>>>> you
>>>>> have the time to show me what exactly I need to do to make disk 
>>>>> images.
>>>>> HTH.
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>> From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
>>>>> To: "Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:26 AM
>>>>> Subject: [Blindapple] Anyone still here? And a few software requests
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I know this is a silly question for the moderator of a list to ask, 
>>>>>>but
>>>>>>is
>>>>>> anyone actually still here who's interested in Apple II stuff? I'm
>>>>>> looking
>>>>>> for a few software titles, and wondering if anyone has them. First is
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> talking disk that says "Talking Disk" and has Talking Writer, Typing
>>>>>> Game,
>>>>>> Dragon Maze, Space Invaders, Music Game, and Voice Control. I used to
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> copy, but not any more. Also, does anyone have Type Talk by Lorin
>>>>>> Software?
>>>>>> I have a copy, but it has a bad sector. This program is copy
>>>>>> protected,
>>>>>> but
>>>>>> there's a way to get around that for copying and/or imaging purposes.
>>>>>> Are
>>>>>> there any collections you know of, where I can find disk images of
>>>>>> talking
>>>>>> software, other than what I've published?
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>> Jayson
>>>>>>
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