Re: Apple II software in a .2mg image format and a 68k Mac

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On May 28, 9:28 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> madmax2069 wrote:
> >  > Bill Garber wrote:
> >  > I'm confused. Doesn't the Performa 475 have a 1.44MB floppy drive?
>
> >  > And, if so, can't you create a 1440K ProDOS image, copy your 801K
> > SDK
> >  > image to it, then write that to a 1.44MB disk to read in the
> > Performa?
>
> >  > Just a thought. That would be easier than uploading them and then
> >  > downloading them again.
>
> >  > Bill
>
> > Yes my Performa 475 has a superdisk floppy drive. But NONE of my other
> > computers (excluding my IIgs) have a 3.5" drive in them.
>
> > that's why i have to use a http file host to transfer files from my
> > Windows PC to my 68k Mac, or just download them with the Mac from the
> > site i want to get the file from (if i don't have to convert them like
> > i do with a 2mf disk image). It could be the browsers causing the
> > issue as well.
>
> > I have a bunch of .dsk (resulting from ciderpress conversions, or
> > downloading from a FTP) files on my Mac that i cant seem to get
> > anything to see. maybe if i use PRoDOSifier to try to fix the
> > filetype they might work but i do not know what filetype to set for a
> > .dsk.
>
> Didn't Antoine just release a utility for mounting .dsk files on
> a IIgs?
>
> -michael
>
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yes he did, it's called Mount It and it works very well.

Dean