[Blindapple] new member and reading archives

Wed Jul 5 02:38:36 EDT 2017

Now that I think of it, I have a master disk for the old Franklin 1000 series
which has some slightly different stuff from Apple's stuff that they did so they
didn't have as many copyright problems.  Its copy.obj loads differently and its
intbasic also loads differently.  Also havesome of the old Beagle Brothers stuff
which was some really nice tools for manipulating things.

Tom

Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html

On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Tom Brennan wrote:

> nFor simple stuff like workstation I could tell you the crack and just send that
> on a plain disk and let you modify your init command by changing, for example,
> a47505 and a48302 r4om 222 to 223 or could send you exec files to make the
> patches for you.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Jayson Smith wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Okay, a few more questions. Do you have a USB thumb drive you could fill
> > with disk images, then mail to me? Do you have a copy of Textalker-GS?
> > If so, I can definitely show you how to use your CFFA3000 to image
> > standard format 5.25 and 3.5 disks. By standard format, for 3.5 disks, I
> > mean 80 tracks, 1600 blocks. For 5.25 disks, I mean 35 tracks, 16
> > sectors/8 ProDOS blocks per track, no funny business like copy
> > protection, etc. Like I said, I don't know of a way to read 13-sector
> > disks, but if you have some stuff on them, there's probably a way.
> >
> > Let me know if this would work.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jayson
> >
> > On 7/4/2017 9:31 PM, Tom Brennan wrote:
> > > I am using da shell through a university but they've blocked zmodem, xmodem,
> > > ymodem, kermit, and ftp so I really can't upload anything into it.
> > >
> > > I have a //gs but somewhere I do have a super serial.  Also have a Laser 128ex.
> > > Have an old win98 machine and an xp machine but no internet for them.  Have a
> > > running dos machine but no internet for it.  I'm typing on a Mac right now.  I
> > > do have a cfa3000 but have never messed with it.
> > >
> > > kTom
> > >
> > >
> > > Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> > > web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
> > >
> > > On Tue, 4 Jul 2017, Jayson Smith wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I noticed through the message ID of your message that you're using Pine.
> > >> Are you using a dial-up shell account? If so, I could probably find a
> > >> modem somewhere (believe it or not, there are USB modems now) and you
> > >> could send disk images, archives, etc. directly to me, just as in the
> > >> olden days, lol!
> > >>
> > >> Before I continue, I want to say, please don't be offended by any of the
> > >> following questions, I truly don't know what type of equipment you have.
> > >> Do you have a Windows PC or just DOS? Do you have a CFFA3000 on any of
> > >> your Apples? If not, do any of your Apples have a Super Serial card or a
> > >> hardware compatible? As I said earlier, the IIc serial ports are
> > >> compatible, the IIgs ports are not.
> > >>
> > >> I would be glad to image disks you send me, but I really don't want to
> > >> have you send me your only copies of stuff through the mail, just in
> > >> case something happened to them. You might literally have the only
> > >> remaining copies of some of this stuff. Do you have enough blank/spare
> > >> floppy disks that you could make copies of stuff to send to me?
> > >>
> > >> I'm just trying to figure out a way to get this stuff archived and
> > >> preserved. The standard Apple 5.25 .dsk image is 140K, 35 tracks, 16
> > >> sectors. I don't know of a disk image format specific to DOS 3.2
> > >> 13-sector disks, or any other oddball disk format.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> Jayson
> > >>
> > >> On 7/4/2017 12:07 AM, Tom Brennan wrote:
> > >>> Jason, I have an odd situation.  I can't upload any stuff with the isp I'm
> > >>> using.  If you can read them we can talk about my directly sending you either
> > >>> 3.5 or 5.25 disks of programs themselves.  Have v3.0 and 3.1 of DOS as well as
> > >>> several versions of prodos and the gsos Davex version of DOS that APH did.  Also
> > >>> have pascal, graforth, pilot, cp/m, and several other operating systems for the
> > >>> Apple.  Even have a version of logo I modified to sort of talk although that's
> > >>> obviously kind of silly.  Got a lot of that stuff boxed up but can probably dig
> > >>> it out.
> > >>>
> > >>> If anyone's got it, I'm looking for the version of wlrd.talk that was written
> > >>> for the pc.  Have I think v3.1 for the Apple but would really like to have the
> > >>> pc version.  Used to have it but it seems to have gotten lost.
> > >>>
> > >>> Tom
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> > >>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
> > >>>
> > >>> On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, Jayson Smith wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Hi,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I would love, love, love to get my hands on images of software you have,
> > >>>> as you probably have some treasures. I hope this can happen somehow,
> > >>>> sometime.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Thanks,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Jayson
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On 7/3/2017 4:02 PM, Tom Brennan wrote:
> > >>>>> Welcome to the list, Jeff.  I fondly remember the magazine and still have
> > >>>>> several of its disks along with lots of programs that came from it.  Still run
> > >>>>> that stuff on my Apple and Laser computers.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Tom
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> > >>>>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, Jeff Weiss wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> 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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