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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: cbcvenice on January 17, 2006, 06:08:37 AM
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I am trying to help a gentleman get access and recover his disceased wife's journals/docs from a working apple iie.
Looking for a way to get many documents (apple writer ii) on over 130+ 5.25 disks(140k) from a working "appleiie" with 5.25 floppy drive over to an Amiga3000 or to a win98/winxp machine.
A null modem hookup between said computers was suggested. Yes, the appleiie has some kind of serial port (an old poor imagewriter printer is hooked to it at moment) but I haven't found any terminal/modem programs on his disks... I will look again though. Even if I find/get said program will the xmodem or whatever transfer "language" properly?
The other two ideas I had is 1)running apple emulator on A3000, but I would need a 5.25 drive which I understand is very rare.
Or ... 2) purchasing an apple iigs with 5.25 & 3.5 drives and transfer docs through that computer. Question I have about Apple iigs is.... would it work with a 1084 monitor??
Thank you for your input,
Lar :-?
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Hi,
Some of the Apple-related tools on Aminet (http://main.aminet.net/search.php?query=apple) might assist you...
It appears there are a few Apple ][ disk transfer and extraction applications, but I've never used any of these so can't really comment further.
Good luck!
- Ali
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If it has an Apple serial card then you're all set. There is a command you can type in at the ] prompt that will accept input from the serial port.
Then you get a text file dump of the Apple program called ADT. When you send it over a null-modem cable it will call the monitor program on the Apple and enter itself into RAM. Then you can use ADT to transfer and write a disk image of an Apple terminal program such as Modem Manager.
There are step-by-step instructions on the web somewhere, let me know if you have trouble finding them.