[Blindapple] new member and reading archives

[Byron Stephens]

If I recall right for prodos it was textalker and pt.obj
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Blake Roberts 
  To: 'Blind Apple Discussions' 
  Sent: Monday, July 03, 2017 11:45 AM
  Subject: Re: [Blindapple] new member and reading archives


  Hello Jeff,

  Welcome to the Blind-Apple list.

  I also created a batch file for launching a disk image. I find a batch file to be more convenient than typing the command at a dos prompt every time I want to use the emulator.

   

  You might be able to extract a .tz file using the free 7-zip utility. It can open/extract many compressionformats.

  http://www.7-zip.org

   

  Disk images can be found online from various sites. For example:

  ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/

  and

  http://apple2online.com/index.php?p=1_33_Games-Library

  These disks probably won't boot up talking. However, it is possible to add TexTalker and the necessary Hello program from a talking disk onto a non-talking disk using a utility called CiderPress. I have not yet figured out what TexTalker/startup files need to be copied between ProDos disks to make ProDos disks talk.

  Blake

   

   

  From: BlindApple [mailto:blindapple-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Weiss
  Sent: Monday, July 03, 2017 2:06 PM
  To: blindapple at bluegrasspals.com
  Subject: [Blindapple] new member and reading archives

   

  Hello,

  My name is Jeff Weiss and I just joined the blind apple list.

  I used to publish a disk magazine for blind Apple users originally called

  Apple Talk.

  Due to a problem with licensing Dos for the magazine, I later changed the name to

  A-Talk.

  First, how do I read the archives?  I downloaded some files that end with .gz.  I guess this is some type of zip file, but where can I get the program to unzip the files?

   

  My next question is how do most of you boot your apple disks on the pc?  I have started launching mine with batch files, which makes the process much easier than typing out the entire launch commands.

   

  Also, I think Jason said that there are additional disk images available.  Are they available for download, or directly from Jason?

   

  That's enough for now, and I look forward to comments from other list members.

  Jeff Weiss

   



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