Re: Using ,dsk images on a real Apple II -- help

[Greg Buchner <null@none.invalid>]

In article <1163382048.276934.26360@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 cph1776@gmail.com wrote:

> OK, I have a number of .dsk images (as used in WinApple and other
> emulators) and I'd like to make them into 5 1/4 disks for use on a real
> Apple II.
> 
> I tried going the image->Macintosh->File Exchange onto a
> Prodos-formatted 3.5 disk route. The big snag with that is that File
> Exchange (3.0.1) insists on setting the Prodos filetype on all of the
> copied files to $00. These files are useless on the Apple II (cannot be
> read, deleted, or otherwise manipulated).
> 
> I tried Protype (1.1) and changing the file types on the mac with
> ResEdit, to no avail. I even tried fooling with a couple of modems, but
> I really don't want to go the hardware route if at all possible.

First off, don't use Apple File Exchange.  It doesn't understand some of 
the changes Apple made.  In later versions of the Mac OS (starting 
sometime in System 7 and pre-OS X), there was an extension that let you 
read/write ProDOS disks.

So first off, what version of Mac OS are you using?

And, with the extension that handle ProDOS disks and careful file 
naming, you should be able to transfer files to a ProDOS formatted disk 
and it should be readable on an Apple II after they've had their creator 
and filetype modified by ProTYPE.

Greg B.

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