Re: making acutal floppys out of .dsk images from the net

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Hey, that's cool. It's really great to write it up in cookbook style like
that. It should be tried out and critiqued, then added to the faq.
-Paul

Macnlos <macnlosNOSPAM@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Search for the Apple II FAQ from Rubywand, it has a lot of information on
> this.  I just finished doing what you are asking for the first time.  Here
> is what I did:
>
> 1) Download "ProType" for the mac (this is a file type changer for the
mac)
> 2) Download "gshk.sea" for the IIgs to your mac (this is a ShrinkIt
> dearchiver)
> 3) Download "asimov.shk" for the IIgs to your mac (this is a DSK image to
> Floppy converter)
> 4) Download "tchange" for the IIgs to your mac (this is a file type change
> for the IIgs)
> 5) Rename "tchange" to "tchange.txt"
> 6) Drag "tchange.txt" onto "ProType" to convert it to a text type
document.
> 7) Copy "tchange.txt", "asimov.shk", "gshk.sea" to a ProDos 3.5" floppy.
> 8) Boot the IIgs and get to the Basic prompt.
> 9) Set the prefix to the floppy with "tchange.txt" on it.
> 10) type:    BLOAD TCHANGE.TXT, TTXT, A2048
> 11) type:    BSAVE TCHANGE.BIN, A2048, L15711
> 12) type:    DELETE TCHANGE.TXT
> 13) TCHANGE.BIN is now ready to run on the IIgs as a binary.
> 14) Run TCHANGE.BIN and convert the "gshk.sea" file type to BIN.
> 15) Now "gshk.sea" is ready to run.
> 16) Run "gshk.sea" and it will extract itself and leave you with the GSHK
> binary.
> 17) Run the GSHK binary and extract the "asimov.shk" archive.
> 18) You now should a working copy of asimov on you IIgs.
> 19) Copy a DSK image file to a ProDOS floppy on your mac.
> 20) Take that floppy to your IIgs and run "asimov" on it.
> 21) Instruct "asimov" to extract the DSK image to floppy.
> 22) Make sure that you have a formatted floppy in you disk drive.
>
> Goodluck,
> Macnlos