Re: Getting Shrinkit to IIGS for the first time

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

>   fadden@spies.com (Andy McFadden) wrote:
> > In article <399d7f10@news1.svn.net>, Paul Grammens <grammens@svn.net>
> wrote:
> > >We should make a disk image with a bunch of utilities on it, so
> anyone who
> > >can create the GS OS system disks can just make one more with utils
> on it
> > >such as Shrinkit, ShrinkitGS, a couple of freeware and/or shareware
> comm
> > >programs, etc.
> >
> > Such things exist.  The trick is getting from a disk image to a real
> > disk on a physical machine.  It's easy to get an emulator up and
> running,
> > much harder to boot-strap a real Apple II unless you have something
> else
> > that can write discs in the correct format.
>

Yep, if you don't have a Mac the easy solution is to get someone to mail you
a disk, but if you do have a Mac (not too old or too new) then the disk
images are the way to go. With compact Macs being so cheap (SE fdhd, SE/30,
Classic, Classic II, etc.) it's worth having one around for transferring
files from PC to any Apple II that supports 800K diskettes.

So what should be on the disk image? Off the top of my head, I'd suggest
making it bootable, adding Shrinkit, Binscii, Shrinkit GS, comm programs
such as Agate (Zmodem), the Azimov disk image program... what else? 800K is
a good chunk of space to play with.
-Paul