Re: Creating a CD for a use on an Apple IIgs?

[Sam Latella <powergs@macgui.com>]

gids.rs wrote:
> On Monday, November 12, 2012 11:02:58 PM UTC-6, Hugh Hood wrote:
>> Sam:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Not being a Windows guy I can't say for sure whether you'd find this
>> useful,
>> 
>> or whether you can even make use of command-line type utilities on your
>> 
>> particular Windows machine, but you might wish to check out Scott
>> Alfter's
>> 
>> "ProDOS/HFS Partition Table Generator" software that he uses to create
>> 
>> CD-ROMs that can be read on a real Apple II. This is Scott's Copyrighted
>> 
>> work, BTW.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From Scott's description and docs is:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> "ProDOS/HFS Partition Table Generator (last updated 5 February 2003)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This doesn't directly run on a II (well, it might run on a IIGS with some
>> 
>> fixes), but it's useful if you want to create CD-ROMs that are readable
>> on a
>> 
>> II. (I used it to make a bootable IIGS System 6.0.1 install CD.) It
>> creates
>> 
>> a partition table with the specified number and sizes of ProDOS and/or
>> HFS
>> 
>> partitions. You then concatenate filesystem images after the partition
>> table
>> 
>> to make an image file that can be burned to CD-R, dumped to a hard drive,
>> 
>> etc. It's known to build and run under Linux and Cygwin; other POSIXish
>> 
>> environments (including Mac OS X) should also work without much fuss.
>> 
>> Non-POSIX environments (such as Win32 and older versions of Mac OS) may
>> need
>> 
>> some tweaking."
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> "I threw this together as a quick hack to put my System 6.0.1 floppies
>> onto
>> 
>> a CD-ROM, since I couldn't figure out how to get mkisofs to create an HFS
>> 
>> CD-ROM with multiple partitons.  This program creates an Apple-format
>> 
>> partition table with the specified number of ProDOS and/or HFS
>> partitions.
>> 
>> Each partition has its own volume name and size in blocks.  If the first
>> 
>> partition is a ProDOS partition and has a file named PRODOS, the CD will
>> be
>> 
>> bootable on a suitably-equipped Apple II."
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Here's the link to his page. See the 3rd item down for a description and
>> 
>> download link:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> <http://alfter.us/computers/apple2/software.aspx>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> An alternative _may_ be to make/get an .iso image of the 'Golden Orchard'
>> 
>> CD-ROM, mount the images in Ciderpress, change the contents to what you
>> 
>> want, and save back under a different name. Then burn _that_ image.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Maybe, but then again, maybe not.
> 
> 
> I just verified that it works in Ciderpress.  The Golden Orchard cd has a
> 20 Mb Prodos partition and a 631 Mb HFS partition.  You can add and delete
> files freely.  You may need to check the GoldenOrchard.iso files'
> properties first and check to make sure that read only is not selected.
> 
> Each partition has a different name, so all that is needed is to create
> folders under the partition name you wish to copy to.
> 
> Rob
>

So, if I understand this correctly I can use Ciderpress to create the
partitions on windows as a file, and then burn them to a data cd (ISO), and
insert it into a IIgs with a cdrom and it should run?

I'll post any successful results I have.

Sam