Re: DOS 3.3 Image Does Not Work on XGS

["Charlie" <charlied@NOSPAMbboard.com>]

"Bryan Parkoff" <BParkoff@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
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> DOS 3.3 Image Does Not Work on XGS
>
>     I used ShrinkIt v3.4 to shrink 140K floppy diskette that
contains DOS
> 3.3 Master.  I used UUencode program to encode DOS 3.3 Image from
Binary
> into ASCII.  Then I transferred DOS 3.3 Image from Apple IIgs to PC
through
> BlueDisk controller card using Peter Watson's software.

Why is it necessary to change the image to ASCII and then back?

>     In MS-DOS, I UUdecoded DOS 3.3 Image and used NuLib v325 to
unshrink DOS
> 3.3 Image into DOS.Dsk before I converted DOS.Dsk into DOS.2mg.  I
tried to
> boot DOS.2mg using XGS Emulator, but the machine language appeared
in the
> screen such as 1Fa2.... like dump assembly status.  I am unable to
boot it.

How did you convert the DOS.dsk into DOS.2mg?

> Please advise what I have done wrong.

I have found that Kegs32r3 is a better Apple IIgs emulator than XGS
and you can boot a .dsk image without having to convert it to 2mg.
Kegs32r3 can be found at:
http://www.geocities.com/akilgard/kegs32/

Charlie