Re: Creating a CD that is usable on a IIgs

[Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>]

On 11/05/2010 02:45 AM, Sam Latella wrote:

> Okay, how about the MSDOS.FST on the IIgs... Wouldn't I be able to create a
> cd on the Windoze machine that is dos based and copy the IIgs files that are
> in a zip format onto the cd... Then bring it over to the IIgs?  I know the
> programs  won't run, but its more for the purposes of an archive format and
> being able to transfer larger data between two different machines.

Unfortunately, standard CD-ROMs in the Microsoft world do not, and never
did, use a DOS FAT file system; they use ISO-9660 instead. That's why
you needed to waste so much RAM for that MSCDEX driver when using
CD-ROMs under DOS. So I doubt there are any tools specifically for
creating MSDOS file system based CDs.

What you could maybe do is create an image of a DOS hard disk partition
and burn that image directly to a CD, but I don't know if any computer
would be able to handle such a CD directly.

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Linards Ticmanis