Re: Using 3.5" Drives (or CFFA) with 5.25" DOS3.3 Disk Images Directly

[rob <rob@spamoff.net>]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:37:26 -0800 (PST), Warren Ernst
<wernst@gmail.com> wrote:

>So I was in the mood to play Choplifter for the first time in at least
>10 years last night. I downloaded a disk image from one of the
>archives, gunzipped it on the PC, FTP-ed the DSK or PO file to the GS
>via SAFE2, and then ran DiskMaker 8 to make a 5.25" disk. So far, so
>good.
>
>I had to dig deep for a good, unused 5.25" floppy disk to write the
>DOS 3.3 image onto, which I finally did.
>
>That said, I have loads of good 3.5" disks, both 800k DD and 1.44MB
>HD, for my Apple 3.5" Drives and my SuperDrives, plus I have a 1 GB CF
>card in the CFFA with loads of unusued space - all ProDOS (plus a
>large HFS partition).
>
>Is there any way to directly use any of these ProDOS volumes for
>uncompressing the 143kb DOS 3.3 disk images, and then playing the
>game? I'm looking to bypass 5.25" disks entirely from the process.
>
>I know there are a few methods, such as UniDOS, for transferring DOS
>3.3 Disk contents to specially formatted 800k 3.5" disks, though I
>don't know much about them (any thoughts, anyone??). That said, I
>thought they all started with a working 5.25" DOS 3.3 disk, which is
>what I'd love to avoid altogehter.
>
>Thanks for any tips and pointers,
>
>Warr


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