Doing what steve says will produce a disk that CAN be read on a GS with a superdrive controller, but since such a GS can read native MS-Dos disks, why nother? Just put an ms-dos disk in the gs.
The zip drive thing will work, just not the 3.5" floppy thing you suggest. I was assuming this guy didn't have a scsi zip and scsi card for his GS as well as a scsi card for the PC.
You see, it's not just the disk format that is at issue, but the disk encoding as well. Yes, you can make a PC format a disk in HFS. But there is currently no way to make a PC format any disk in GCR encoding. Only MFM. (* unless you have the discontinued and extremely rare copy II option board that central point made. It plugs into the PC drives and lets them do GCR encoding)
Steve Sanders wrote:
There is another way. Go to http://www.dataviz.com/products/conversionsplus/index.html and checkout the program Conversions Plus. It allows you to format Zip disks or 3.5 disks with the Mac HFS file system. Make sure you have the HFS FST loaded on the IIgs and it will read and write the disk.Steve left_the_scene wrote:Giorgio Ungarelli wrote:I'm sure this has been answered before, but I can't seem to find a "recent"answer:Is there a way to write 3.5 floppy disks on a PC in a format that an AppleIIGS can read (under GS/OS 6.0.1)?The short answer is no. Unless you get a superdrive controller and 1.44 drive for the GS.I would like to transfer quite a lot IIGS software that one can freelydownload from the Internet onto my IIGS, but I don't have access to a Mac.Unless you want to invest in the drives and controller for the GS, you need to use a serial cable and ADT to tranfer the files to the GS.