Re: Installing Games on the IIgs Hard Drive, What am I Doing Wrong??

[Tempest <reichert2084@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:49:27 AM UTC-5, schmidtd wrote:
> On 2/13/2013 10:29 AM, Tempest wrote:
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> > If I were to open up these hard drive images in an emulator and get them down to under 30 megs each by removing a few of the games I don't need, could I then use ADTPro to move them over to my 30 meg partitions on my real IIgs or will I still have problems?
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> You can't guarantee that the games you removed were from the last 2MB, 
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> so you will need to "compress" the disk as well.  The way I'd do that is 
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> to create a new 30MB image that matches the block count of my 
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> destination drive with CiderPress.  Then open both the 32 and 30 meg 
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> images with CiderPress (two windows open at the same time), Ctrl-A 
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> Ctrl-C (highlight all, copy) from 32MB, Ctrl-V (paste) to 30MB.  That 
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> would ensure both that the results fit, and that it will all be inside 
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> the threshold of what your drive will be able to see once you transfer 
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> it back to the real thing.

Good point.  If I can't get my other hard drive working then I'll try this method.