Re: DOS 3.3 to Mac transfer

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

An excellent program for transferring DOS 3.3 files to ProDOS is named Copy
II+. It is very easy to use.

HOWEVER. If your desire is to run these DOS 3.3 programs under emulation on
a MAC, you need to make DSK file conversions of the original DOS 3.3 disks.
In the vast majority of  cases, DOS 3.3 programs will not run under ProDOS
without modification, unless they are very simple programs that do not
access the disk or the machine level.

My preferred method is to use the ProDOS program DSK2FILE to make DSK files
of the original DOS 3.3 floppy disks and store them on a ProDOS disk. Works
great!

Tom Zuchowski

"Ken Brooks" <ken@sparklight.com> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
> (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!)
>
> Thanks,
> Ken