Re: DOS 3.3 to Mac transfer

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Ken Brooks writes ...
> 
> I picked up an old IIgs because it has a 3 1/2 floppy drive and a 5 1/4
> as well.  Aha!  I said, just the hardware I need to transfer all my old
> Apple II programs onto modern (Mac) systems, thence to CD and keep
> accessible forever.  And, hopefully, run on emulators.
> 
> I just spent 3 hours dusting off and bringing up the system.  It boots
> from the 5 1/4 just fine, comes up acting like an Apple IIe.  It boots
> from the 3 1/2 just fine, comes up in "Finder", reminiscent of the
> oldest Mac I ever owned.
> 
> So I try the transfer.  BUT NO!  When I put in my old DOS 3.3 formatted
> floppy, it says, "This diskette was formatted for another operating
> system and can't be read.  Eject?  Initialize?"
> 
> This is Finder 1.2, vintage 1988.  So I'm wondering, is there ANY
> version of ANY operating system that will run on a IIgs and let me
> transfer old DOS 3.3 disks onto 3 1/2 inch PRODOS format floppies?
>

     There are quite a few options. Probably, the easiest is to boot ProDOS
2.0.3. Then, you could use DSK2FILE or ASIMOV 1.x to create a .dsk disk image
file for each DOS 3.3 diskette (so long as the diskette is not copy-protected).
For more about this stuff, see http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FLUTILS.html
.


 
> (Apart from that I guess I'll have to stick a modem on the IIgs and use
> XModem or something to transfer files to a modern system.  Please say
> it isn't so!)
 ....

     You could set up a NULL modem connection (no modem required) and do
transfers at 56k baud. That would take care of transferring the disk image
files without having to move diskettes back and forth. There's more about
transferring files at http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2T1TCOM.html .



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