advfan Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Does anyone know if, like with the Atari and Commodore computers with their preservation efforts, there is a similar thing for the Apple II, or at least a place where original dumps can be found and not cracked images? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftermac Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 I have thousands of Apple II games that I acquired from a preservation effort. Not sure if the effort still exists, but I have 14+ GB of compressed Apple II and Mac Software. Anything specific you are looking for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 I have thousands of Apple II games that I acquired from a preservation effort. Not sure if the effort still exists, but I have 14+ GB of compressed Apple II and Mac Software. Anything specific you are looking for? I have about 5 gigs of apple ][ series images and stuff, including tons of bbs files and logs and everything you can imagine. I am only looking for saturn navigator from sublogic, I have an original, but I want to try this on an emulator.. swap libraries? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakasama Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 I have thousands of Apple II games that I acquired from a preservation effort. Not sure if the effort still exists, but I have 14+ GB of compressed Apple II and Mac Software. Anything specific you are looking for? Mac Software you say? Would you happen to have a copy of the Glider Pro CD disk image? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftermac Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 I have thousands of Apple II games that I acquired from a preservation effort. Not sure if the effort still exists, but I have 14+ GB of compressed Apple II and Mac Software. Anything specific you are looking for? I have about 5 gigs of apple ][ series images and stuff, including tons of bbs files and logs and everything you can imagine. I am only looking for saturn navigator from sublogic, I have an original, but I want to try this on an emulator.. swap libraries? Sounds like you might even have more Apple II software than I do. I've probably got a couple gigs (haven't added the A2 stuff up), The vast majority of my software is Macintosh, since started dramatically increasing in size. ...and sure... the archive I downloaded from was kind of scatterered, and I haven't taken the time to organize it... Let me get all the A2 stuff together. I have thousands of Apple II games that I acquired from a preservation effort. Not sure if the effort still exists, but I have 14+ GB of compressed Apple II and Mac Software. Anything specific you are looking for? Mac Software you say? Would you happen to have a copy of the Glider Pro CD disk image? I'll check tonight, when I get home from work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
advfan Posted December 4, 2008 Author Share Posted December 4, 2008 I have thousands of Apple II games that I acquired from a preservation effort. Not sure if the effort still exists, but I have 14+ GB of compressed Apple II and Mac Software. Anything specific you are looking for? I'm mostly interested in graphic adventures and RPG's, but as I said, only if they don't have the 'cracked by' loading screens that most Apple II images that are available through the Internet have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 I have a bunch of stuff downloaded from the net, AND original disks in the plastic baggies purchased in the late 70's and early 80's. I'd like some suggestions for somehow archiving and transfering these original 'copy-protected' disks to a modern pc(for use with emulators) and also having the ability to re-write them back to a blank disk, or 'refresh' the original disk. How can I hook up a disk ][ drive to a pc is what I should be asking..? And how to 'bit-copy' these disks.. I need to over 2500 floppies before the iron-oxide coating rusts!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftermac Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 I have a bunch of stuff downloaded from the net, AND original disks in the plastic baggies purchased in the late 70's and early 80's. I'd like some suggestions for somehow archiving and transfering these original 'copy-protected' disks to a modern pc(for use with emulators) and also having the ability to re-write them back to a blank disk, or 'refresh' the original disk. How can I hook up a disk ][ drive to a pc is what I should be asking..? And how to 'bit-copy' these disks.. I need to over 2500 floppies before the iron-oxide coating rusts!! http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/ Have fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Beat me to it. ADT is kickass Is there a similar solution to handle NIB type operations? I've looked around but never found one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftermac Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 I have thousands of Apple II games that I acquired from a preservation effort. Not sure if the effort still exists, but I have 14+ GB of compressed Apple II and Mac Software. Anything specific you are looking for? Mac Software you say? Would you happen to have a copy of the Glider Pro CD disk image? Unfortunately, I do not have Glider Pro, though I did find that it is now freeware: http://homepage.mac.com/calhoun/Glider%20PRO.html So... I guess I do have it now. I also have Glider, Glider 3.0, 3.1.2, 4.0.4, & 4.0.9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakasama Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Unfortunately, I do not have Glider Pro, though I did find that it is now freeware: http://homepage.mac.com/calhoun/Glider%20PRO.html So... I guess I do have it now. I also have Glider, Glider 3.0, 3.1.2, 4.0.4, & 4.0.9. Well, the CD had a unique program that was very useful for editing houses. Only the Gilder Pro CD had that. It's no big deal. I know there's disk image of that somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david__schmidt Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Is there a similar solution to handle NIB type operations? Not exactly. NIB is a lossy format, and so is not particularly deterministic. There does not exist a software solution to reliably "bit copy" every possible copy protection scheme out there. Which is why so many games have crack screens on them... in order to be archived, most need to be cracked to remove the copy protection before they can be copied reliably. NIB takes care of some of the lightest copy protection, but for the more sophisticated types, there is no general solution available. For Macintosh users, the Virtual ][ emulator comes with an ADT variant called A2V2, which can transfer NIB and another (so far) proprietary format for half-tracks. It'll work for some of your 2500, but not always. I have been working with Gerard Putter, author of Virtual ][ and A2V2 to incorporate the technology into ADTPro, but have been exploring other technologies as well to see if anything better can be engineered. So far, nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Great, thanks for the info I definitely want to try out that transfer ability of Virtual ][. I had no idea it could do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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