Re: Vindicate the Apple IIGS

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CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:

>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.
>
>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.

I think Terry is thinking about a PC program that can read/write HFS
disks.  Several exists.  However, as you point out, these programs
do not work with Mac GCR 800k format disks.  They only work with
Mac MFM 1.44MB disks.

Luckily, the IIGS' 1.44MB HFS format disks are identical to Mac
1.44MB HFS disks, meaning that HFS high density disks is the
way to transfer.