Re: Creating a CD for a use on an Apple IIgs?

[waynejstewart@gmail.com]

I haven’t tried the developers CDs on a IIe but I have burned ProDOS CDs with a Mac. They’re useable on any Apple II with a CD drive and running ProDOS. I’ve had a CD drive connected to a IIgs, IIe, II+ and a II. I’ve booted off a CD with the IIgs, IIe & II+.

Last time I made a ProDOS CD I used a Mac 7600 running OS 9. Don’t recall which version of Toast. 

The way I did ProDOS CDs was by blind SCSI copy. I'd set up a Hard drive with the data and partitions I want. Then I'd hook it up to the computer with the CD burner. Leaving the hard drive off I'd boot the Mac. After the Mac had booted I'd turn on the hard drive. The reason I did this was so the hard drive wouldn't mount and so the MacOS wouldn't change or add anything to the HD. Then with Toast I'd use Device Copy to choose the unmounted hard drive and burn it to a CD. That'd give me an exact copy of the HD and if it was bootable, then the CD was bootable. Also this way the Mac doesn't need to be able to understand or deal with ProDOS.

I don’t know if there’s a way to do this on a PC


On Monday, November 12, 2012 10:16:59 AM UTC-8, pitz wrote:
 
> There's probably even a way of creating CDs with ProDOS partitions.  The first few Apple Developer CDs (the Phil and Dave CD?) had a ProDOS partition, aside from the HFS partition.  Could these CDs be readable from an Apple II/e (equipped with a SCSI or IDE card)? 
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> /pitz