Hi,
Firstly, i've looked EVERYWHERE on the net for information on this for the past few days. I've given up, so i have searched for "apple II discussion forums" and came across this page. If this post is completely unrelated, could someone please tell me a good site/resource/forum for help on this..
Okay... i owned an Apple IIe throughout childhood, and recently i decided to find an Apple IIe emulator for Windows (Applewin) to start learning some basic programming for a bit of fun.
Seems simple enough, I have a book with a list of graphics examples that i want to learn, so im interested in typing up these example basic programs in something like notepad, and then saving them into a DSK image and mounting the disk image in the emulator... This is where i am having trouble.
All id simply like to do is save the basic programs as files and import them into a disk image. But i dont know what software to use (must be windows compatible), and i dont know what file extension to save the basic programs as and then how to load the disk (i honestly forget, its been over 15 years)...
Can anyone help me out here? Really, it would help if you could jsut tell me what file format to save the basic programs as and how to run them in the emulator... it would be so much easier if apple IIe emulators supported copy and paste of basic programs...
Thanks alot, this is greatly appreciated!!
Ok, first let me answer the question you really asked:
"If I write a BASIC program in Notepad, how do I get it into an emulator?"
And that's easy. Type up your BASIC in Notepad, copy it all (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C) and paste it directly into AppleWin (Ctrl-Insert). Done.
Now, if you want to fool with disk images, you want to look at CiderPress (http://ciderpress.sourceforge.net) for all your image manipulation needs on Windows. But moving from a full text-based BASIC program to a tokenized binary thing on a disk image is a bit of a journey. You're best off doing the copy/paste thing in the emulator, then using the emulator to SAVE PROGRAMNAME to get it into tokenized form on your mounted disk image.
David, thanks alot for your comprehensive reply,
You answered my question