Re: Vindicate the Apple IIGS

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Sun, 30 Aug 1998 09:07:50 +1000, hmag@ozemail.com.au (Terry Allen)
wrote:

>It seems that many who have replied to this thread have lost the fact that
>he seems to be using a PC, not a Mac. In any case, I seem to remember
>reading about a piece of software from someone like Dataviz that let's you
>format & read software from a Mac, so the best bet would be to format an
>800k floppy from the GS in HFS, then copy the software from the PC download
>onto it using the PC software. Can't remember any more info than this
>though.

I'm sure others will speak up as well, but this method won't work.

An 800k formatted floppy, whether ProDOS or HFS, uses GCR encoding
which the MFM 3.5" floppy drive on the PC is incapable or reading or
writing.

If the IIgs in question has a high density 3.5" floppy of some sort
(using a PC floppy with BlueDisk card, a SuperDrive or compatible with
SuperDrive controller or compatible, a SCSI floptical, etc.)  then
they could use this method if they use 1.44 MB HFS formatted disks.
They could possibly do it with 1.44 MB ProDOS disks and a PC program
called ProCopy but I can't remember if ProCopy can write to ProDOS
disks or not.

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