User`s guide

You can, still, run software from most copy-protected diskettes by just
booting them.
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From: Vincent Joguin, Charlie, Rubywand
007- Can I read Apple II diskettes on my PC?
Yes. There is a way for some PCs to read Apple II DOS 3.3 and ProDOS 5.25"
floppies which are not copy-protected.
By "some PCs" I mean that the PC must have two floppy drives (only one has
to be a 5.25" drive) and it must be running MS-DOS or Windows 95, 98, or ME. (It
won't work with NT, 2000, and XP).
You also need a program called "DISK2FDI". (For a link to the program, see
Csa21MAIN4.txt.)
DISK2FDI reads the Apple floppy and creates a disk image (.do) on the PC.
These images will work on most emulators.
You may find that DISK2FDI has difficulty reading some sectors which read
fine on your real Apple II. If that happens, try making a fresh copy of the
diskette using Disk Muncher or some other fast whole-disk copier.
For a collection of postings on using Disk2FDI see ...
http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Docs/Disk2FDI_InfoPostings.txt .
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From: Chris Norley
A while back I requested some information regarding the reading of Apple II
floppies by an PC:
ORIGINAL POST:
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We have some old data from a small NMR spectrometer that was run from an
Apple IIe. The same spectrometer is now run from a DOS machine and we'd like to
be able to access the old data from the PC.
Does anyone know of or possess some utility to allow the data from the 5
1/4" Apple II floppies to be read from the PC? Any hints as to program names,
ftp sites, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
SUMMARY OF RESPONSES:
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There is a card called the MatchPoint PC card that will let you read and write
Apple II DOS, ProDOS, and CP/M disks on a PC 5.25" 360K drive. We used to have
one installed in an XT here and it worked fine.