Re: Getting software for my IIGS

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

"Trevor Key" <trevorkey@lycos.com> wrote in message
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> I have recently gotten an Apple IIGS system from various parts together.
>  I now have a ROM 01 system unit, a monitor, a 5.25" floppy drive, 2
> 3.5" floppy drives, a keyboard, a mouse, and a new battery.  I just have
> one major problem... I have no software.  I need to know how to get it
> from the internet onto a disk it can use.  Can I use a cable to transfer
> stuff without needing any software.  I have no 800k floppy disks.

Yes, you can use a cable to transfer files from your PC to the IIgs. There
is a utility called ADT to do this.  Read about it in the faq, which you can
find here:

http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2T1TCOM.html

You should try to pick up an 800K floppy or better yet two of them. You will
be very limited without them.


I can
> probably get my uncle to put stuff on disks since he has a macintosh
> Performa 5300CD and access to many older models that his school has in
> storage, though.

The Performa 5300cd won't work- the floppy drive is not compatible with
ProDos 800K disks.
An older Mac with a SuperDrive floppy will work. The LC's, IIsi, Classic,
Classic II, Color Classic and many other models from the early 90's will
work.  You'll need an 800K floppy drive for your IIgs, but once you have it
you can download the GS/OS disk images from the Apple archives. They can be
transferred to 800K floppies using one of those Macs mentioned above.

> I just twisted the wires around the ones of
> the old battery.  It works for now.)

The old battery will drain the new one. You need to clip the wires from the
old battery (as close to the old battery body as you can get, so the wires
are as long as possible.)

Twisting the cut wires to the new battery will probably work, use
needle-nose pliers so the make good contact.


> .  I might be
> able to get some Apple IIe floppy disks tomorrow, including whatever
> version of ProDOS they used, but there isn't much hope there.
>

Those will work. You can't run GS/OS until you get an 800K drive anyway.
-Paul