Re: Early sierra games for the apple 2 and SDK images

[Moll <Mollyzkoubou@Spam.BettyKate.Spam.Spam.Spam.Dosius.Com>]

Alistair Ross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any of the early Sierra AGI adventure games such as 
> Space Quest, the Black Cauldron etc? If so, what sort of an Apple II do 
> they need? Would my Apple //e 64k run them?
>
> I noticed that asimov has a few sierra games on it in a weird format 
> that as of yet, I have no idea how to get onto my apple from the net.
>
> I use ADT in a 3 way process:
>
> 1) download on my main box (Linux)
> 2) put onto a 3.5" floppy and run ADTDOS on a 486 laptop
> 3) transfer DSK images to apple via ADT.
>
> Above for me works great every time. However, I understand that SDK are 
> Shrink-IT disk images. How is it possible to unshrink these images and 
> transfer them to an apple to if you:
>
> A) Do not own nor wish to use a copy of Microsoft Windows.
> B) Have no clue about shrinkit in any capacity (i've tried reading a 
> number of websites).
>
> Kindest Regards,
>
> Alistair Ross

nulib2 will extract a PO disk image, I think there is a DOS or Linux 
version.  Then you need to reinterleave the disk image from PO to DO 
(fairly straightforward, though the only tool I have to do it is written 
in QuickBasic).

Moll.