Re: HFS, P8 & Linux/Kegs

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:

>phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net> wrote:
>
>>Not a bad setup. As long as the archives are large files the wasted
>>space is not so noticable. a large HFS partition is also a great
>>place to archive whole P8 partitions since the .SHK file would
>>waste less space and could easily be restored.
>
>I'm not too concerned about wasted space what with having 880 MB of
>space that I have no intention of using for anything real important.
>:)
>
>I'm currently trying to figure out the best way for me to get images
>of my hard drives to my PC for use with Sweet16 now that I have BeOS
>but I don't particularly like the idea of transferring 32 MB 2IMG
>files and the only real way I have of compressing these files is with
>ShrinkIt.  I guess I'll get to find out how well Nulib works real
>soon.  :)

Wow, so better emulators ARE coming.  Choices choices.  ;-)

Whether it is better to go Linux and KEGS or BeOS and
Sweet16.

Too bad you don't have a Zip drive for the IIGS, Jeff, otherwise
it'll be a snap to transfer entire 32MB partitions!  I've transferred
some rather large files myself (such as the audio demo I
emailed to Max Jones...hmm...hope he figured it out enough
for KansasFest).