Re: BXY to 2MG conversion

["Miles Attacca" <milesattacca@gmail.com>]

So when the IIGS version was released, did it come in disk-packageable
format, or do I need to have a hard drive/CF drive for it all? Does
anyone know?

schmidtd wrote:
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> > Miles Attacca wrote:
> > > Ah, that's the part I forgot to mention. (Wondering what it was.) I can
> > > extract the BXY images to the proper set of files, and go to "make
> > > image," but they're a few KB above the 800KB floppy limit.
> >
> > Would that be like, 819,200 bytes, since that's what "800K" is?
>
> No, .BXY is an archive of files, not a disk image.  The Wolf3d images
> available from Sheppyware are collections of files you'd have to move
> onto a disk (or image) you already have, like a hard drive or CF drive.
>  CiderPress is still a great option for doing that.  But they won't all
> fit on an 800k floppy image.
>
> Sheppy has a .2MG that contains all the files in one shot.  You can
> just attach that as a secondary hard drive on your emulator to see how
> it works.  But if you want to move it to a real mass storage device
> using ADTPro, you'd have to ship the image up to the PC, copy the
> Wofl3d files onto the image, then send it back down to the IIgs.