Re: 800k floppy on a Mac Classic II to transfer files to IIgs

[Jcarlson1701 <jcarlson1701@gmail.com>]

On Oct 10, 5:46 am, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On Oct 10, 1:58 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:> Jcarlson1701 wrote:
> > > Thanks for all of the suggestions. Since I'm new to a IIgs and don't
> > > have any software/documentation, I'm assuming that I can just do an
> > > 'init' from the applesoft command line to format a disk?
>
> > No, with ProDOS (unlike DOS), you'll need to run either the ProDOS
> > Utility Disk and select the Format option, or use practically any
> > other disk utility program (like Copy II Plus) to format disks.
>
> Have you gotten anywhere yet?  If you still have to get off of square
> zero, would it make sense to get started with ADTPro's bare-metal
> bootstrapping?  It could get ProDOS started up and has a disk
> formatting utility.


I'm going to try that tonight. However will the version of ProDOS that
ADT transfers (I believe its 1.9) work on a IIgs?