John Morris donated the deluxe version of his new-ish "AppleSauce" disk imaging hardware to us (it should arrive in a week or so.) We (Ian, Alex J., etc.) can build it at the next workshop. It requires a Mac with OS version 10.11 or newer. John said that's pretty much any Mac from mid-2009 or newer. So everyone is welcome to bring uncracked Apple II disks to the next workshop, and this thing should be able to make exact working copies. Wish I had that in 7th grade! Got in trouble for trying to copy Newsroom. :) Copy II+ wasn't up to the task.
Applesauce info: https://wiki.reactivemicro.com/Applesauce John's Website: https://applesaucefdc.com/
We (Ian, Alex J., etc.) can build it at the next workshop.
Shouldn't be much to "build". Just connect to a Mac and load the client software. Done. It's really that simple.
this thing should be able to make exact working copies.
"Crate an image" is more in line with what it does. I know John had been working on the client's ability to write images back out to floppy, however it wasn't his core concept or feature push. And some protections can't be written back out as they used special drives or production methods the Disk II can't reproduce. So writing success may be limited. You can however make raw and .WOZ images for use in emulators, which are exact as possible images with the protection intact. Jason Scott for example has a live stream setup when using Applesauce for Internet Archives activities: https://www.twitch.tv/textfilesdotcom. So you can get an idea of how it works as well as how to use the UI there. I've been twisting John's arm a bit and we might even get to work on a hardware based emulator soon to make use of the new image files. He's also working on setting up a server to host images users have created. $.02 Henry S. Courbis Office Toll Free: (800) REACTIVE (732-2848) Office/Mobile Direct: (856) 779-1900 www.ReActiveMicro.com <http://www.ReactiveMicro.com> - Sales, Support, and News, Our Headquarters on the Internet ReActiveMicro.com/wiki - Support, Software, Manuals, and History. Create your own page today! Facebook.com/reactivemicrousa - Our Social Media Outlet and Support On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 9:31 AM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
John Morris donated the deluxe version of his new-ish "AppleSauce" disk imaging hardware to us (it should arrive in a week or so.)
We (Ian, Alex J., etc.) can build it at the next workshop.
It requires a Mac with OS version 10.11 or newer. John said that's pretty much any Mac from mid-2009 or newer.
So everyone is welcome to bring uncracked Apple II disks to the next workshop, and this thing should be able to make exact working copies.
Wish I had that in 7th grade! Got in trouble for trying to copy Newsroom. :) Copy II+ wasn't up to the task.
The sync sensor needs to be installed in the disk ][. That's the worst of it. On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 7:10 PM Henry S. Courbis via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Applesauce info: https://wiki.reactivemicro.com/Applesauce
John's Website: https://applesaucefdc.com/
We (Ian, Alex J., etc.) can build it at the next workshop.
Shouldn't be much to "build". Just connect to a Mac and load the client software. Done. It's really that simple.
this thing should be able to make exact working copies.
"Crate an image" is more in line with what it does. I know John had been working on the client's ability to write images back out to floppy, however it wasn't his core concept or feature push. And some protections can't be written back out as they used special drives or production methods the Disk II can't reproduce. So writing success may be limited.
You can however make raw and .WOZ images for use in emulators, which are exact as possible images with the protection intact. Jason Scott for example has a live stream setup when using Applesauce for Internet Archives activities: https://www.twitch.tv/textfilesdotcom. So you can get an idea of how it works as well as how to use the UI there.
I've been twisting John's arm a bit and we might even get to work on a hardware based emulator soon to make use of the new image files. He's also working on setting up a server to host images users have created.
$.02
Henry S. Courbis
Office Toll Free: (800) REACTIVE (732-2848) Office/Mobile Direct: (856) 779-1900 www.ReActiveMicro.com <http://www.ReactiveMicro.com> - Sales, Support, and News, Our Headquarters on the Internet ReActiveMicro.com/wiki - Support, Software, Manuals, and History. Create your own page today! Facebook.com/reactivemicrousa - Our Social Media Outlet and Support
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 9:31 AM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
John Morris donated the deluxe version of his new-ish "AppleSauce" disk imaging hardware to us (it should arrive in a week or so.)
We (Ian, Alex J., etc.) can build it at the next workshop.
It requires a Mac with OS version 10.11 or newer. John said that's pretty much any Mac from mid-2009 or newer.
So everyone is welcome to bring uncracked Apple II disks to the next workshop, and this thing should be able to make exact working copies.
Wish I had that in 7th grade! Got in trouble for trying to copy Newsroom. :) Copy II+ wasn't up to the task.
When installing those sync sensors in the disk][ for the applesauce, I always found the fact that you have to pry up the disk hub to make the sync sensor fit between the bottom of the spindle-strobe-hub to be extremely scary, (and may actually be breaking a retaining washer?), and entirely unnecessary. Instead, you can use a pair of angled wire cutters to CAREFULLY cut the sticky magnet in half down the long way (possibly with a few 'bites') so it becomes a thinner slice with the sticker on it, and then remove the sticker to expose the glue and stick the now thinner slice onto the bottom of the spindle-strobe-hub (which the drive motor belt goes around). If you do this, there is no prying necessary, and it still works fine. Its possible the newer applesauce devices (mine was from the first run) have a thinner sticky magnet included with the sync sensor, so this isn't necessary at all anymore. On 1/31/2019 7:26 PM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
The sync sensor needs to be installed in the disk ][. That's the worst of it.
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 7:10 PM Henry S. Courbis via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Applesauce info: https://wiki.reactivemicro.com/Applesauce
John's Website: https://applesaucefdc.com/
We (Ian, Alex J., etc.) can build it at the next workshop. Shouldn't be much to "build". Just connect to a Mac and load the client software. Done. It's really that simple.
this thing should be able to make exact working copies. "Crate an image" is more in line with what it does. I know John had been working on the client's ability to write images back out to floppy, however it wasn't his core concept or feature push. And some protections can't be written back out as they used special drives or production methods the Disk II can't reproduce. So writing success may be limited.
You can however make raw and .WOZ images for use in emulators, which are exact as possible images with the protection intact. Jason Scott for example has a live stream setup when using Applesauce for Internet Archives activities: https://www.twitch.tv/textfilesdotcom. So you can get an idea of how it works as well as how to use the UI there.
I've been twisting John's arm a bit and we might even get to work on a hardware based emulator soon to make use of the new image files. He's also working on setting up a server to host images users have created.
$.02
Henry S. Courbis
Office Toll Free: (800) REACTIVE (732-2848) Office/Mobile Direct: (856) 779-1900 www.ReActiveMicro.com <http://www.ReactiveMicro.com> - Sales, Support, and News, Our Headquarters on the Internet ReActiveMicro.com/wiki - Support, Software, Manuals, and History. Create your own page today! Facebook.com/reactivemicrousa - Our Social Media Outlet and Support
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 9:31 AM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
John Morris donated the deluxe version of his new-ish "AppleSauce" disk imaging hardware to us (it should arrive in a week or so.)
We (Ian, Alex J., etc.) can build it at the next workshop.
It requires a Mac with OS version 10.11 or newer. John said that's pretty much any Mac from mid-2009 or newer.
So everyone is welcome to bring uncracked Apple II disks to the next workshop, and this thing should be able to make exact working copies.
Wish I had that in 7th grade! Got in trouble for trying to copy Newsroom. :) Copy II+ wasn't up to the task.
-- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com
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