Re: Backing up collection to .2mg?

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

colin@pcgamer.com (Lux GS) wrote in message news:<ce3be7a5.0211140617.6f9d2371@posting.google.com>...
> This Christmas, I am headed back to the states, and intend to back up
> my entire collection of Apple II and IIGS stuff to either a Mac or PC.
> I'd like to make .2MG images of both my hard disks and floppies.
> 
> However, I'm not precisely sure how to go about doing this. The HDD is
> SCSI, and I've heard you can attach these to Macs, which can read
> ProDOS partitions. However, I am totally without a clue as far as
> converting floppies to 2MG's is concerned. I have access to both a
> PowerMac and a PC, so can anyone give me a clue as to where to start?
> 
> Cheers,

There is a program in the XGS-DOS 0.5 archive called imgutil.  This
program can convert between, I think, DiskCopy 4.2 and 2mg, or PO and
2mg...

Try shrinking the disk, then transferring it, then unshrinking it and
converting it as a PO disk?  Not sure that would be possible, but you
can try.

-uso.
I made my images in Bernie. :)