Re: Major Problems with .SHK files copying to GS PLEASE HELP!!!!

[Alex Lee <alelee@mail.bigpond.com>]

in article o_z98.13479$gf5.7821@nwrddc02.gnilink.net, VZE26PJV at
rambo.dsl@verizon.net wrote on 11/2/02 6:37 AM:

> I finally thought I got somewhere and then I run into anoher roadblock!
> 
> I recently purchased a focus Hard drive for my GS (best 70.00 spent!), and I
> wanted to get some old GS games onto the machine.  Using my MAC I downloaded
> some .shk files (from the GS fairway) to restore to my GS.  I cannot seem to
> copy these files onto an 800K disk using the MAC OS (ir just freezes).
> Instead, I use a program called filecopier10.  The .shk file copies fine.
> So far so good.
> 
> When I insert the floppy to the GS running system 6.01 the file is there. .
> .  no problem (for some reason the Mac puts a "desktop" file in there too).
> 
> I now want to use GShk to unzip the file and play it on a normal 800K disk.
> However Gshk does not allow me to unzip it to anywhere other than another
> 800K floppy, since I only have one drive I figured I would copy the .shk
> file to the hard disk first and then use Gshk to unzip straight to a floppy.
> I tried building a floppy using only one drive but Gshk seems to write half
> the disk and then keeps endlessly telling me to re-insert the original.  I
> am left with a disk that looks like it has all of the data, but will not
> work.
> 
> For some reason, I cannot copy the file to the hard disk.  When I drag the
> file over to the HD, the copy process begins and everything seems to look
> like it is copying.  However, soon, all disk activity stops and  the status
> message flips between "reading" and "writing" constantly with nothing
> happening.  What am I doing wrong??  I am at wits end with this!!
> 
> Does anyone have a solution for me!!

Yes, sorry.  The archives ShrinkIt archives on the Fairway are disk
archives, not file archives, meaning you can ONLY extract to a 3.5 inch disk
first.  This was to maintain the original system that came with each game,
not to mention that a lot of games rely on a certain disk name for the
program to find the files.

So really, the only way around this is to extract to a floppy disk, then
copy to the hard drive.  Hey, at least you'll have a back up on floppy as
well! :-)

- Alex