Re: Help with .DSK files

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> RHR <rhr@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> >     I'm having difficulty creating floppies from disk images (.DSK).
> > What I have been doing is downloading the files to my MacII. Then I use
> > Image Converter to convert the image to CopyII+ format, then I use
ProType
> > to fix the fork file problem.
> >     At this point I copy the file to a ProDos formatted disk and bring
it
> > over to my Apple Iigs where I use CopyII plus 7.1 to make the floppy.
> > Everything seems to be fine but when I use the newly made floppy on my
> Apple
> > II all I get is some assembler code at the bottom of the screen and
> nothing
> > else.
> >
> >     Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> You're using too many steps. You should be able to copy
> the .dsk image straight to a ProDOS disk. Take it to Apple II,
> then use Dsk2File o convert it to a disk. If you don't have Dsk2File,
> you can find it at the many ftp sites where you get the .dsk files.
> That is the easiest way to get them to your Apple without going
> through all those other steps.
>
> Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
> http://garberstreet.netfirms.com

Personally, I like Asimov better than Dsk2File. Dsk2File seems to be
unreliable when writing 5.25" disk images, but is useful for writing 3.5"
Disk Copy Images. You can get Asimov at www.ninjaforce.com.
-Greg