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Subject: Re: Transferring Atari disks to PC
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Date: 18 Dec 94 20:05:48 MDT
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Hi again,

In article <3d15dt$t56@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow) writes:
> So what needs done now is for someone with different hardware to do
> the same experiments I did, only with a good 1050 to verify things.

	I played with Anadisk for a while, and this is what I came up with.  I
can get it to read single-density disks successfully (I tested about 20 of
them, no problems).  However, when I tried some of my high-density disks,
Anadisk would only occasionally read a complete sector.

> If someone can get it to reliably read, Anadisk will dump an entire
> disk to a file.  We should then put together a short program that will
> flip all the bits, and convert it to SIO2PC format (or one of the
> other standards).

	I wrote a quick program to do just that.  I transferred a dozen or so
disks and had no problems at all.  For those of you who want to try this out,
both it and Anadisk are available for anonymous FTP at: happy.usu.edu in the
directory DISK$USR4:[T.SLTW2.DSK.ANON].  (Sorry, I'm stuck with VMS.)

	All instructions are contained in the single .com file, and since it's
so short (1860 bytes), I'll post it here as well.

	I'd love to hear how much success people have with this program.  Also,
if anyone gets high-density to work (I'm working on it myself).  Have fun! ;-)

-Nate (direct all mail to Nathan.Monson@lambada.oit.unc.edu)

P.S:  My program writes files in raw image format for PC Xformer.