On Sep 21, 4:30 am, Warren Ernst<wer...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sep 20, 7:43 am, Vapor<macarim...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sep 20, 3:10 am, Drew<goggled...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 20 Sep, 03:38, Polymorph<mike.a.steph...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sep 20, 11:47 am, Warren Ernst<wer...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sep 19, 5:37 pm, Polymorph<mike.a.steph...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sep 20, 10:15 am, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
Rich Hare wrote:
I pulled a CSOB move. Instead of adding one to my IIGS, I bought a
pizza box Mac which has a drive built in. When I need to, I can use Mac
disks, PC disks or ProDos disks in the Mac, and then transfer files to
the IIGS via Appletalk. A little slower and more cumbersome, but
definitely cheaper.
Here, here. That's the same thing that I do. I find that a desktop Power Mac
G3 (the one with built-in serial ports) fits the bill quite nicely and
frequently serves as an AppleShare server for the IIgs.
If I were to get a 3.5" disk system, it would definitely be for the IIe. I'm
fine with 800k disks on the IIgs. I managed to squeeze System 6 and
Marinetti onto one!
--
Mac GUI Vault - A source for retro Apple II and Macintosh
computing.http://macgui.com/vault/
Alternatively, if you have a CFFA/Microdrive/Focus, you can get an IDE-
to-CompactFlash converter off eBay (really cheap) and mount the CF
card externally. By having external access to the CF card, you can
easily remove the CF card from the Apple II and use Ciderpress and a
card reader in a PC. Doing this you can copy files directly onto the
CF card which eliminates the need for floppy disks or an Appletalk
connection. This is *much* faster than any other solution I am aware
of. You can easily copy entire hard disk images, or individual files
onto the CF card with a few simple clicks and then stick the CF card
back into the Apple and away you go.
That's how I do things anyhow. :-)
Cheers,
Mike
Except that you have to power down the Apple II to remove the CF card
to read it in the PC, right? (Well, that's what I do.) And then
reboot.
Yes, this is true - you do need to power down the Apple II, so perhaps
for single file transfers, the Superdrive might have the edge.
However, considering my accelerated IIgs boots in under 30 seconds, by
the time you've written the file(s) to a floppy and read it/them from
the floppy, I reckon it would still be reasonably close. If someone
were to "give" me a Superdrive controller, I'd be more than happy to
do some tests. ;-)
Cheers,
Mike
I find the uthernet with safe ftp has been the most convienant way to
transfer files..I have a superdrive and can't remember the last time i
used that tbh.
Drew
I'm with you Drew. I use the Uther card to do all of my
transferring. I use FTP for most transfers, and ADTPro for others
(when they are pure disk images). I have a superdrive and controller
and haven't even installed them yet :)
Actually, I also agree with you (which therefore means I disagree with
myself - DOH). When I'm under GSOS, then my Uthernet and FTP is the
way to go. That said, you'd be amazed how much I'm still doing 8-bit
stuff, meaning the SuperDrive still gets used more than you'd think.
-Warr
Hehe... well I only got a Uthernet recently, but I too have to agree
for single or small batches of files, I'll probably be doing this as
well. I've already setup an ftp server on my local network that hosts
a whole bunch of Apple II disk images. So, yeah I agree too - I guess
we're all in agreement on this one! :-)
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Just out of curiosity, what sort of transfer speed do you guys get. I
did some testing the other night and found that I was getting about
6kb/s when transferring files via FTP using Safe. I have a 12.5MHz Zip
GSX installed, and noticed that both the slot my CFFA and the slot the
Uthernet was installed in were set to "slow" in the Zip GSX control
panel. I changed both slots to "fast" and noticed the transfer speed
jump up to about 10kb/s. Is this comparable to what others are
getting?
</off_topic>
Cheers,
Mike