Olaf Marx wrote:

>Hi Stephen,
>I know the problem. Serial cards seem to be quite common in the US, but it
>some parts of the world it's difficult and expensive to get one nowadays. I
>used the casette interface to transfer DOS to my Apple IIe. I patched the
>ROM image of an emulator (Apple II Oasis) so that the cassette out is sent
>to the speaker. It was also neccessary to suppress the ready beep. Then I
>booted DOS on the emulator and connected PC's soundcard line-out to Apple
>IIe's cassette in. On the Apple II type
>CALL -151
>9D00.BFFFR
>And on the Emulator
>CALL -151
>9D00.BFFFW
>Now DOS shoud be transmitted. It'll take a while. Now you need to activate
>DOS on the Apple:
>3D0:4C BF 9D 4C 84 9D
>3F2:BF 9D 38 4C 58 FF
>3F8:4C 65 FF 4C 65 FF 65 FF
>9D84G
>And finally you can INIT HELLO your first DOS disk.
>Sometimes the transmission failed, but finally it worked for me.
>
>An other way could be a program called ap2222pc. It uses PC's parallel port
>and Apples game port for transmission.
>If you need help or a patched ROM image, feel free to ask.
>
>I hope I was able to help
>
>Olaf Marx
>
>Email: o l a f . m a r x @ w e b . d e

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