Re: Image Conversion

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

William Austin writes ...
> 
> Rubywand wrote:
> 
> >      The //e card in your Mac is not really an emulator. It is supposed
> > to _be_ an enhanced Apple //e (with a few exceptions, such as having no
> > Slots and handling the video through the Mac).
> >
> >      If the Mac can download .dsk files or (download and uncompress
> > .dsk.gz files to .dsk files) AND if the //e can access the .dsk files,
> > then, you should be able to run DSK2FILE (from the //e) to convert the
> > .dsk files to diskette form via a diskette in the //e 5.25" disk drive.
> 
> This is where my problem occurs.  I have a 10Mb ProDOS partition on my
> harddrive.  My BASIC.SYSTEM and PRODOS.SYSTEM files are there.  I can copy
> files into this partition using the Mac finder, and they show up under a
> CATALOG command, but I can't execute anything, nor can I see anything but
> those two files under the ProDOS "finder" (after typing BYE at the prompt).
> I can't even get BINSCII or SHRINKIT to work.  They're there on the disk, but
> the DOS won't recognize it.
>


     As Labelas observed, downloaded Apple II files probably arrive with
the wrong filetype. They will not execute until the filetype is fixed.

     Regarding what you can see and when, it's certain that you will get
nowhere with using the HD partition to move files to the //e card if the
//e card running ProDOS can not 'see' the files placed there by the Mac.
Is there a Mac utility-- i.e. something other than the Mac Finder--
which will transfer files to a ProDOS partition?

     By the way? Where did PRODOS.SYSTEM come from? The usual name for
the file which contains Apple II ProDOS is "PRODOS".



> I thought the whole thing was worth scrapping until I downloaded a utility
> disk from Apple's website.  It came as an 800k ProDOS DiskCopy image.  I made
> a 3.5" diskette out of it and it works perfectly.  I'm confused!  :-)

LQ! Me either. Do you mean that the //e card can use the 3.5" diskette?



Rubywand