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  • Can't find this in the FAQ - tranferring disk images back to physical disks

    From Luis de Santos@desantos@cfl.rr.nospam.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Tuesday, July 08, 2003 04:50:14
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    It's been awhile, but having just repurchased an Apple //e, how would
    I go about taking a disk image on an FTP site and moving that image
    back onto a disk so I can run it on the physical //e. Since most are
    in 5.25 inch format, does that mean I have to find these disks
    somewhere, or can they be copied to an 800k floppy (even though the
    image is for a 5.25 disk) and run?

    Or if that sounds dumb, is there a way of running the IMAGE on the
    physical //e instead?
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  • From mjmahon@mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) to comp.sys.apple2 on Wednesday, July 09, 2003 05:47:01
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    Luis de Santos asked:

    It's been awhile, but having just repurchased an Apple //e, how would
    I go about taking a disk image on an FTP site and moving that image
    back onto a disk so I can run it on the physical //e. Since most are
    in 5.25 inch format, does that mean I have to find these disks
    somewhere, or can they be copied to an 800k floppy (even though the
    image is for a 5.25 disk) and run?

    Or if that sounds dumb, is there a way of running the IMAGE on the
    physical //e instead?

    The best way to proceed depends on what kind of system you
    are using to download the image files from the net.

    This is all covered pretty well in the csa2 FAQ.

    -michael

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    Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
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  • From Michael Pender@mpender@hotmail.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, July 12, 2003 06:08:45
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    Luis de Santos <desantos@cfl.rr.nospam.com> wrote in message news:a6jkgvs53gmt02bvq3dasg2h6oc4ao4cas@4ax.com...

    It's been awhile, but having just repurchased an Apple //e, how would
    I go about taking a disk image on an FTP site and moving that image
    back onto a disk so I can run it on the physical //e. Since most are
    in 5.25 inch format, does that mean I have to find these disks
    somewhere, or can they be copied to an 800k floppy (even though the
    image is for a 5.25 disk) and run?

    Or if that sounds dumb, is there a way of running the IMAGE on the
    physical //e instead?

    In a technical sense, there is nothing that prevents moving a ProDOS disk
    image from one type of physical media, such as 5.25" disk, to another form
    of media, such as 3.5" disk, but I couldn't tell you if tools like IMAGE
    would do that for you because I haven't used it.

    I know you can use ProBlock to do it. I used to do that more than a decade
    ago to transfer the image of a floppy to the 1 Meg internal ramdisk of my Laser128ex before doing intense programming tasks because the ram disk
    is *much* faster than floppy disks.

    However, ProBlock pre-dated development of the DSK format and does not
    support moving DSK images to physical media.

    - Mike



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