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Re: Making Apple II 3.5 inch disks with a modern Mac
- Subject: Re: Making Apple II 3.5 inch disks with a modern Mac
- From: "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:59:25 -0700
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Chris Alaimo (Jibbajaba) wrote:
I have an iMac G5 running OSX Panther. If I go out and buy a USB 3.5"
floppy drive, can I make disks that an Apple //c+ would be able to read?
Perhaps using an emulator or something?All I am looking to do is
download .sdk files and whatnot from the web and use my //c+ to make
disks for my old ][+.
Unfortunately, USB drives are all 1.4MB MFM, and are not capable of
writing the 800KB GCR disks that the IIc+ uses.
You will need an older Mac to do the conversion, if you still want
to use a Mac. A flavor of ADT (serial connection) may be preferable.
BTW, if you want to use .sdk files (not .dsk), then ADT is not the
most direct way to proceed. You can use a terminal program on the
Mac to send files to an Apple II and then use ShrinkIt on the II to
unpack them to real disks. (This method assumes that you have a
disk to run ShrinkIt already. See the FAQ for bootstrapping methods.)
-michael
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