Re: [Q]How to use CFFA?

[Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>]

heliboy2003@yahoo.com.tw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've received my CFFA card couple of months ago but didn't have time
> to play with until this week. After reading the user manual, I am very
> confused. The manual says that the CF card needs to be formatted, but
> how? It says that I need to use Copy ][+ or Apple System Utilities to
> format the CF card, but how can I run the Copy ][+? (I have an Apple ]
> [e without any Floppy drive). Does that mean I have to get a working
> Floppy Drive and found a Copy ][+ diskette to format the CF on my
> Apple ][ then I can use CFFA?

If you have a CF reader for a PC, it's probably possible to format the
card on the PC with CiderPress, then copy ProDOS to it. This way you
would not need a floppy drive.

I don't know the exact details though as I personally don't own a CFFA
(yet). Especially I'm not sure if CiderPress can do the partitioning
that's needed for CF cards greater than 32MB. Anyone?

> Another question, I have totally no idea on how Apple Dos or ProDos
> works, if I have the CF card formatted OK, can I put the Disk ROM
> images (.dsk, .po or .nib) found on the web to the CF card and run it?

Not the disk images as such, but their contents - but they need to be in
ProDOS format themselves, except for single-loader programs.
Multi-loader games that aren't in ProDOS themselves will be more tricky;
many can work with the help of DOS.MASTER though, and for some games
there are ProDOS conversions in existence.

.nib images will not usually NOT work on the CFFA, as most of them
represent copy-protected games in some kind of non-standard disk format
that's tailored specifically to 5.25 inch floppy drives.

-- 
Linards Ticmanis