[Blindapple] Anyone still here? And a few software requests

Louis Bryant louis at braillesoft.net
Wed Jan 20 15:09:09 EST 2010 

Hi. How cool, I'll do it in my sparetime. Thank you.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindapple] Anyone still here? And a few software requests


> Okay, here you go. Before starting, insure the Apple and PC can 
> successfully
> communicate over the serial port, but that goes without saying!
>
> 1. Start with a scratch disk formatted as DOS 3.3, and have DOS 3.3 
> booted.
> 2. Send this program to the Apple.
>
> --- Start of program
>
> 430 START = 8192:BUF = 9000: FOR A = START TO START + 28
> 440  READ V: POKE A,V: NEXT
> 450  DATA
> 169,32,160,8,32,217,3,96,1,96,1,0,17,15,25,32,40,35,0,0,1,0,0,96,1,0,1,239,216
> 460 R = 1:W = 2
>
>
> --- End of program
>
> 3. Run this program. There should be no output.
> 4. Type this command.
> bsave disk access,a8192,l29
> 5. Now send this program to the Apple. If your serial connection is not in
> slot 1, replace PR#1 with PR#X where X is the proper slot number.
>
> --- Start of program
>
> 0  PRINT  CHR$ (4),"BLOAD DISK ACCESS"
> 1  GET A$
> 2 A$ = ""
> 3 CR$ =  CHR$ (13)
> 4  PR# 1
> 10  FOR T = 0 TO 34
> 20  FOR S = 0 TO 15
> 30  POKE 8204,T: POKE 8205,S
> 40  CALL 8192
> 50  FOR N = 9000 TO 9255
> 60  PRINT  PEEK (N);: PRINT CR$;
> 70  NEXT N: NEXT S: NEXT T
> 80  GET A$
> 90  PR# 0
>
> --- End of program
>
> 6. Save this program. Type
> save send disk
> 7. Although I seriously doubt this program will damage anything, until you
> know it's working properly, I would suggest trying it on disks that either
> you don't care about, or you have multiple copies, or can quickly make a
> throwaway copy in case something goes wrong. I think this is an 
> unnecessary
> precaution, but better to waste a few minutes making copies than risk 
> losing
> irreplaceable software!
> 8. When you run this program, nothing is printed. When disk activity 
> stops,
> remove your disk and insert the disk to be imaged. At this point, start a
> capture buffer session or ASCII receive on your PC. When that's set up, 
> and
> the disk is inserted, press any key to begin the transfer. It will take a
> few minutes, as the data is transferred sector by sector. Should you hear
> the dreaded buzzzzzzzz! of a disk head recalibration, DOS had trouble
> reading that sector, so its contents are probably not valid. Hopefully you
> won't get much of that!
> 9. To know when the program is done, just listen to the disk drive. If a
> long time goes by without the motor coming on, chances are it's done. 
> Also,
> if you have Textalker loaded, it will probably say "Ready" when it's done. 
> A
> twiddle dump works wonders here!
> 10. Stop your capture or ASCII receive. What you will have is a file
> containing lots of numbers. Send this file to me privately. For best
> results, I'd recommend sending the files as attachments, and if you want 
> to
> save bandwidth, zip them. Since it's all numbers, they should zip up quite
> nicely. My address, scrambled for spam prevention, is.
> rat guy at insightbb dot com.
> 11. I will take your file and turn it into a disk image, hopefully! Until 
> we
> can see if this is going to work, please don't go all out and crazy, 
> imaging
> every disk you have. Just image one or two, to make sure this is working.
> It's been years since I used these programs, and I wrote them for my own
> use, never figuring on anyone else using them.
> Hope this helps!
> Jayson
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Louis Bryant" <louis at braillesoft.net>
> To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 1:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] Anyone still here? And a few software requests
>
>
>> Hi. I'd love to! This seems really cool! Thanks.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
>> To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 10:06 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] Anyone still here? And a few software requests
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>     I just posted to the Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.apple2. I'm going to
>>> have to find out if there's a version of Apple Disk Transfer that works
>>> with
>>> the GS ports and can send disk images. I know I had a version for the GS
>>> ports, but it could only receive images, not send them. In the meantime,
>>> I
>>> do have a very crude way you could get images to me if you wanted. It
>>> would
>>> involve you sending a few Basic programs to your Apple to save on a 
>>> disk,
>>> then using them to send disk images to the PC, which would then have to
>>> be
>>> sent to me to create .dsk files. It would only let you send images, not
>>> receive them. If you're interested in pursuing this avenue until we can
>>> get
>>> something better going, please let me know.
>>> Thanks!
>>> Jayson
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Louis Bryant" <louis at braillesoft.net>
>>> To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:54 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] Anyone still here? And a few software requests
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi. I only have the internal ports to my knowledge. I don't know much
>>>> about
>>>> the GS hardware. I do have an Apple IIgs to PC serial port also and can
>>>> send
>>>> ASCII text back-and-forth, but I haven't tried any others. Any help you
>>>> can
>>>> give will be quite awesome, as I want more stuff for this thing from
>>>> online.
>>>> People still build software and downloadable disk images for it and I
>>>> want
>>>> to experiment and see what they've got on a2central.com. HTH.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
>>>> To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:48 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] Anyone still here? And a few software 
>>>> requests
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>     I know you have a GS, since we've talked before. But, do you have 
>>>>> a
>>>>> Super Serial card or just the internal GS ports? I can probably figure
>>>>> out
>>>>> some way for you to get me a disk image. Do you have, or can you get,
>>>>> your
>>>>> GS hooked up to a PC via serial port?
>>>>> Thanks. I'd love to get this disk!
>>>>> Jayson
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>> From: "Louis Bryant" <louis at braillesoft.net>
>>>>> To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:29 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] Anyone still here? And a few software
>>>>> requests
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi. I do have Talking writer with Talking Writer, Dragon Maze, Space
>>>>>> Invaders, Music Game, Voice Control, ETC. I can mail you a copy,
>>>>>> unless
>>>>>> you
>>>>>> have the time to show me what exactly I need to do to make disk
>>>>>> images.
>>>>>> HTH.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>>> From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
>>>>>> To: "Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:26 AM
>>>>>> Subject: [Blindapple] Anyone still here? And a few software requests
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I know this is a silly question for the moderator of a list to ask,
>>>>>>>but
>>>>>>>is
>>>>>>> anyone actually still here who's interested in Apple II stuff? I'm
>>>>>>> looking
>>>>>>> for a few software titles, and wondering if anyone has them. First 
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> talking disk that says "Talking Disk" and has Talking Writer, Typing
>>>>>>> Game,
>>>>>>> Dragon Maze, Space Invaders, Music Game, and Voice Control. I used 
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> copy, but not any more. Also, does anyone have Type Talk by Lorin
>>>>>>> Software?
>>>>>>> I have a copy, but it has a bad sector. This program is copy
>>>>>>> protected,
>>>>>>> but
>>>>>>> there's a way to get around that for copying and/or imaging 
>>>>>>> purposes.
>>>>>>> Are
>>>>>>> there any collections you know of, where I can find disk images of
>>>>>>> talking
>>>>>>> software, other than what I've published?
>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>> Jayson
>>>>>>>
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