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

[gids.rs@sasktel.net]

On Monday, November 12, 2012 11:02:58 PM UTC-6, Hugh Hood wrote:
> Sam:
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> Not being a Windows guy I can't say for sure whether you'd find this useful,
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> or whether you can even make use of command-line type utilities on your
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> particular Windows machine, but you might wish to check out Scott Alfter's
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> "ProDOS/HFS Partition Table Generator" software that he uses to create
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> CD-ROMs that can be read on a real Apple II. This is Scott's Copyrighted
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> work, BTW.
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> From Scott's description and docs is:
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> "ProDOS/HFS Partition Table Generator (last updated 5 February 2003)
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> This doesn't directly run on a II (well, it might run on a IIGS with some
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> fixes), but it's useful if you want to create CD-ROMs that are readable on a
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> II. (I used it to make a bootable IIGS System 6.0.1 install CD.) It creates
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> a partition table with the specified number and sizes of ProDOS and/or HFS
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> partitions. You then concatenate filesystem images after the partition table
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> to make an image file that can be burned to CD-R, dumped to a hard drive,
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> etc. It's known to build and run under Linux and Cygwin; other POSIXish
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> environments (including Mac OS X) should also work without much fuss.
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> Non-POSIX environments (such as Win32 and older versions of Mac OS) may need
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> some tweaking."
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> "I threw this together as a quick hack to put my System 6.0.1 floppies onto
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> a CD-ROM, since I couldn't figure out how to get mkisofs to create an HFS
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> CD-ROM with multiple partitons.  This program creates an Apple-format
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> partition table with the specified number of ProDOS and/or HFS partitions.
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> Each partition has its own volume name and size in blocks.  If the first
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> partition is a ProDOS partition and has a file named PRODOS, the CD will be
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> bootable on a suitably-equipped Apple II."
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> Here's the link to his page. See the 3rd item down for a description and
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> download link:
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> <http://alfter.us/computers/apple2/software.aspx>
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> An alternative _may_ be to make/get an .iso image of the 'Golden Orchard'
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> CD-ROM, mount the images in Ciderpress, change the contents to what you
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> want, and save back under a different name. Then burn _that_ image.
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> Maybe, but then again, maybe not.


I just verified that it works in Ciderpress.  The Golden Orchard cd has a 20 Mb Prodos partition and a 631 Mb HFS partition.  You can add and delete files freely.  You may need to check the GoldenOrchard.iso files' properties first and check to make sure that read only is not selected.

Each partition has a different name, so all that is needed is to create folders under the partition name you wish to copy to.

Rob