Re: Ciderpress for OS/X?

[Drew <GoggleDrew@gmail.com>]

On Aug 10, 6:17 pm, "ict@ccess" <gids...@sasktel.net> wrote:
> > > I have a number of powermacs and OS 9 never seems reliable at reading/
> > > writing prodos disks (well 9.2.2). I find 8.6 on my Wallstreet works
> > > perfectly for reading and writing Prodos disks and when i had a
> > > powermac 7300 with 8.6 (gone now due to lack of space) that also
> > > worked well. Did 9 have issues or is there a why to make that work
> > > properly with Prodos? I tried formatting a 1.4mb floppy on my ibook g3
> > > with a USB floppy and it started to format then just hang :(
>
> > The problem with ProDOS disks on Macs is usually oriented about the
> > type of drive. 3.5" disks written in the newer, manual-inject 3.5"
> > drives used in later Macs (as opposed to the auto-inject drives that
> > grab the disk from you and pull it in) tend to write disks that don't
> > work reliably in Apple II drives.
>
> > Sheppy
>
> I'll admit I also have trouble copying Prodos disks with the Mac
> Finder, but me thinks that has to do with the driver in file
> exchange.  I find that the "Bernie 2 the Rescue"  emulator has way
> more success in copying files within the emulator than from the Mac
> Finder desktop.
>
> Rob

Using a USB floppy on ibook G3 Bernie was able to read/write files ok,
just for some reason wasn't able to format to disks..just said it was
write protected.
Drew