Re: Creating IIGS Disk Images w/limited hardware

["Donald A. Newell Jr." <donewell@charter.net>]

I have a similar problem:  copying old Apple2 disks.
But, what type of (modern) floppy disks should I uase?
I have a GS II with both size floppy drives: 3.5 & 5.25.
Do I buy an IBM 720K and reformat it to an Apple disk?
Or an IBM 1.2 MB disk and reformat it to Apple2?

Have a Mac Plus & a Mac Performa.
Any ideas/hints will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Don Newell

"A. Freed" <freed1@pond1.com1> wrote in message
news:20020103153859.4887206b.freed1@pond1.com1...
> All right. I could use some advice from the experts, here.
>
> For archival purposes, I'm looking to make some portable backups of my old
> IIGS software. I want to make disk images, transfer them to a PC, burn
> them to CD, and then have them available for use on emulators forevermore.
>
> The best way to do this appears to be SheppyWare's ImageMaker
> ( http://www.sheppyware.net/products/a2/imagemaker/ ), which says it'll
> copy even bad blocks--meaning I can back up my old copy-protected games,
> too. Any arguments so far?
>
> To do this, however, I need to get ImageMaker running under a IIGS.
> Here's where the problems start. I have available to me a IIGS with 2
> floppy drives, but no hard drive. I also have a Quadra 68k Mac, which I
> feel confident (heh...) I can get the iGS-Mac emulator running on. Will I
> be able to use ImageMaker on my IIGS, create disk images from floppies and
> write them onto floppies, then move those floppies to the Mac, and copy
> the new 2mg file over to the Mac HD? (At which point I can get it over to
> a PC for CD-burning.)
>
> Alternatively, if that's impractical without a IIGS HD, can I, under
> iGS-Mac, directly access a ProDos floppy in the Mac drive and use
> ImageMaker to create a disk image? (In other words, does iGS-Mac allow
> access to real, and not just virtual, devices?) At that point, can I move
> the 2mg file from the iGS virtual HD to the 'real' Mac HD?
>
> Sigh. Rereading what I just wrote, I can barely understand it myself. But
> I'll persevere. And would greatly appreciate help. Are either of those two
> methods plausible? If not, what should I do? Or am I being wrongheaded
> about the whole thing?
>
> Many thanks!
>
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> '1's from my address first.)
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