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Desperate for help on transferring stuff from ProDos on Apple IIe to a Mac

The following post titled “Desperate for help on transferring stuff from ProDos on Apple IIe to a Mac” from “Prof. Dr John Warwick Montgomery”: I am new to ProDos and badly need help.  I have an Apple System Disk 3.1

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Z-Machine Interpreter?

The file I thought was a Z-Machine Interpreter turned out to be a program to make it possible to move Infocom games onto a Prodos disk.  I’ve moved on to the interactive fiction archive, which is where I found this file.

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BBS Software, Part 1A

The other day, when I discovered that AppleWin could access the physical serial port, I thought to my self, It’s to bad someone hasn’t written a program that pretends to be a modem so you could dial out over the

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Apple //c as a Terminal, Part 2A

I put my Windows laptop into the docking station and tried Putty.  I feel silly I didn’t think of it sooner.  My thanks to Osgeld  who reminded me.  I have it on all of my PC’s, but use it for something

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Apple //c as a Terminal, Part 2

Today, I managed to make it work, with a little help from several web resources.  The first was: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/find-out-linux-serial-ports-with-setserial/  I tried: $ dmesg | grep tty  I got: [  0.000000] console [tty0] enabled  [  0.688953] 00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8

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Apple //c as a Terminal, Part 1A

Today I didn’t have a lot of time for this project.  I got tied up with a Windows network problem instead.  I have a mix of Windows 7 and Windows XP machines and they have decided not to play nice.

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Apple //c as a Terminal, Part 1

I downloaded a copy of ZLink.  It’s a communications program for the Apple II.  I remember it used to work fairly well. I swapped laptops in my docking station, so I could try using the Apple //c as a terminal

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