Re: CFFA card and the Mac

["Simon D. Williams" <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Wolfgang wrote:

> Simon D. Williams wrote:
> > Wolfgang wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi everyone,
> >>I got recently my CFFA card and I am more than happy with it.
> >>I had no problem to plug in a high speed 2GB Card and with the special
> >>IIgs driver I can address all of it.
> >>
> >>Now to my problem, I do not have a modern PC I use Apple products.
> >>Is there anything like ciderpress where I can read and write the MMC
> >>card directly from the Mac?
> >>Right now I transfer .shk archives from the Mac via Ethernet to my
> >>Macintosh and then via Apple talk too my IIgs.
> >>Works flawless but is slow.
> >>Plugging the MMC card into a cardreader on the Mac and dump the files
> >>directly would be much nicer.
> > 
> > 
> > You might try using the CF as a "shared volume" in Bernie ][ The Rescue
> > (IIgs emulator)... not sure if any OSX-native emulators have that
> > feature.
> > 
> > You might also take a look at ADFS... I think there's an OSX version,
> > but I don't recall if it works with CF.
> > 
> ADFS is a great tool and I use it a lot but you can only open volumes 
> which are mounted.
> 
> The whole point seems to be the mounting of the prodos formatted MMC.
> As of the best of my knowledge OSX has no support for PRODOS but OS9 
> might has.(Have the dual core Macs still OS9 ?)

OS 9 can read and write ProDOS volumes, but its formatting is dodgy. I
would guess that since the Intel Macs run Tiger, which has Classic mode,
they should still run OS 9, but who knows whether ProDOS support has
survived the transition.
-s
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