Re: Graphics, Programmes with PcTransporter and Apple IIGs

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <x7IlDZj.tdon@delphi.com>, Tom O'Neill  <tdon@delphi.com> wrote:
> David Goble <goble@eastend.com.au> writes:
>  
> >If so, if you E-mail it to me, How can I Transfer it from my Intel
> >486 to the Apple IIGs. Iam connected to the net by the Intel 486 not
> >the Apple IIGS 
> 
> If you're up to date on your System Software and using GS/OS 6.0.1 on
> your IIGS, then simply capture the data on a 720k disk on your IBM, carry
> it to your IIGS and put it into th e 3.5" Apple drive and the
> software will allow you to read it

No it won't.  The Apple 3.5 Drive cannot handle MFM disk formats (720KB
or 1.44MB) except in one very special case: the drive must be
connected to the PC Transporter, and you must be running in PC mode,
not Apple mode.

In other words, you can copy a file to 720K 3.5" disk on a real PC,
then use the "Transfer" program on the PC Transporter to copy the file
onto a ProDOS disk.

You can use the MS-DOS File System Translator provided with System
6.0.1 if you have a SuperDrive with SuperDrive card, or some other
type of drive/controller that can read MFM (BlueDisk with PC drive, PC
Transporter with an appropriate "TransDrive", SCSI card with Floptical
drive).

> if you have the Superdrive version of the IIGS 3.5" drive, then you
> can use a high density disk and its 1.44Meg capacity) 

Only if it is connected to a SuperDrive controller ("Apple II 3.5 Disk
Controller Card") or ABC Direct's clone (which I still haven't seen
anything definite about).
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand