Re: Is this a healthy IIgs?

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:32:15 GMT, John <johnw_94020@yahoo.comPDA>
wrote:

>I am just getting started with this so go easy on me. Frankly I never knew a
>IIgs could do this.  In elementary school in the 1980's and early 1990's our
>IIGs's and other Apple II's never had a desktop. We had to load each disk
>individually, there was never an os.

I wanted a IIgs from the moment they came out and even after I
upgraded my IIe to a IIgs, I still had to wait a couple more years
before I could finally use as something more than an upgraded IIe.  :)

>My IIgs
>http://johnw.freeshell.org/IIgs.gif

I'd post a picture of KEGS running on my PC but the only image
editting program I have installed right now is Microsofts Imaging that
is included with Windows and it is a pain to use.  :)

>1)  I use DiskCopy and Superduper for disk images.  Would you reccommend
>ShrinkWrap or am I okay?

DiskCopy should be fine.  I've never heard of Superduper.  Not being a
Mac user I'm not sure how ShrinkWrap would apply here but at least
I've heard of it.  :)

However, I believe the vast majority of IIgs emulator disk images are
in the 2IMG format.  These are often seen with .2MG extensions.

>2)  I for some reason cannot load NIB disks on the desktop, but only pure
>ProDOS disks. Is this normal?

NIB disk images are generally used for copy protected disk images.
These don't normally have standard directory information that can be
viewed and are intended to only be booted by the emulator.

Another use for NIB images is to preserve DOS 3.3 volume numbers.
These can still be seen by the Finder in your IIgs emulator but you
need to make sure you have the DOS 3.3 FST (File System Translator)
installed on your boot disk and that it is active (select Icon Info...
from the Special menu in the Finder when you have the DOS 3.3 FST
selected and make sure the Inactive check box is not checked).  This
will allow you to read from those types of disk images but you can't
write to them.  There are other FSTs that can be useful too.

>3)  Is it possible to load HFS disks on the desktop?

Yes, this is another one of the FSTs I was just talking about except
this one gives you both read and write privelges to the HFS disk.  You
should be able to mount HFS disk images in any IIgs emulator and I
know there are a few emulators that will let you mount physical disks
as well.  I know you can mount physical 3.5" floppies using Bernie ][
The Rescue.

>4)  How can I setup Appletalk?  Its enabled on my Mac, but when I try to do so
>on the IIgs it crashes and says I need to laod AppleShare or whatever.

At present there is no IIgs emulator that I know of that will allow
you to do Appletalk between the emulator and the host machine.  I
don't even know of any that will let you do Appletalk from the
emulator to a second machine by using the host's ports.

Bernie ][ The Rescue does have a way to easily transfer files between
the emulator and the host machine by using specially named folders but
I can't tell you exactly how that works having never used Bernie,
myself.

>This is getting fun.  Reminds me allot of my earlier apple computing days.  

That's why I still use my IIgs regularly.  It is still a lot of fun.

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