Re: Major Problems with .SHK files copying to GS PLEASE HELP!!!!

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>]

VZE26PJV wrote:

> I finally thought I got somewhere and then I run into anoher roadblock!
>
> I recently purchased a focus Hard drive for my GS (best 70.00 spent!), and I
> wanted to get some old GS games onto the machine.  Using my MAC I downloaded
> some .shk files (from the GS fairway) to restore to my GS.  I cannot seem to
> copy these files onto an 800K disk using the MAC OS (ir just freezes).
> Instead, I use a program called filecopier10.  The .shk file copies fine.
> So far so good.

The last few versions of the MacOS seem to baulk at writing to ProDOS
floppies. HFS 800k disks shouldn't be a problem for the Mac or the IIgs
if it has the HFS FST.


> When I insert the floppy to the GS running system 6.01 the file is there. .
> .  no problem (for some reason the Mac puts a "desktop" file in there too).
>
> I now want to use GShk to unzip the file and play it on a normal 800K disk.
> However Gshk does not allow me to unzip it to anywhere other than another
> 800K floppy, since I only have one drive I figured I would copy the .shk
> file to the hard disk first and then use Gshk to unzip straight to a floppy.
> I tried building a floppy using only one drive but Gshk seems to write half
> the disk and then keeps endlessly telling me to re-insert the original.  I
> am left with a disk that looks like it has all of the data, but will not
> work.

>
> For some reason, I cannot copy the file to the hard disk.  When I drag the
> file over to the HD, the copy process begins and everything seems to look
> like it is copying.  However, soon, all disk activity stops and  the status
> message flips between "reading" and "writing" constantly with nothing
> happening.  What am I doing wrong??  I am at wits end with this!!
>
> Does anyone have a solution for me!!

I'd guess that there's something wrong with the disk images.
GSHK doesn't really care where the disk images are located. I've had them
on CDs or hard drives, doesn't matter, as long as they're not on the floppy
you're trying to write to. Could also be hardware. You might try making a
disk image and turning it back into a floppy. If you can do that then thered
have to be something wrong with the images you downloaded. Either in
the download or in the transfer to the IIgs.

    Wayne