Re: ProDos, Macintosh, And disk images for Dummies?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

John Teffer (jdteffer@wcf.net) wrote:
: I am very new here, and was just up till one in the morning reading lots of
: messages in here about how the faq is gone so please forgive me if I ask
: something that could have been answered had i looked around more.  I just
: purchased a IIc Plus, but other than speedway math i have no software for it. 
: I do however have a mac with an internet connection and the ability to handle
: 800k prodos disks.  So i guess what i'm looking for is a way to get downloaded
: .dsk files off of my mac and onto my apple II.  I would appreciate any help.
: also i have a duodock disk drive, i know it works with a II, but is there a
: way to connect it to my mac? thanks for any help

Boy chasing Nathan off is already paying dividends. This thread doesn't have
one of his trademark followups filled with anti-Apple spew and zero useful
content like always used to happen when a similar question popped up.

The must have program to make this process work is the Mac app called 
ProTYPE. This will strip resource forks and decode binscii too so files
are usable when you copy 'em to a ProDOS floppy and sneaker 'em over.

After you have this program on hand, I'd say visit Apple's software update
site and get the utilities disk. You can link there from til.info.apple.com.
That's a really useful site as it's a searchable info resource. (TIL stands
for tech info library.) You can get a disk copy image of the utilities disk
which you can write to a floppy. Then download files you want to use, drag
'n drop 'em on ProTYPE to unbinscii and strip forks, and copy 'em to a ProDOS
floppy. That's all it takes.
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