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

["J .Rambo" <vze26pjv@verizon.net>]

Guys,

Thanks for all of the advice.  I finally got everything working.

I made sure that all of the Disks were HSF format before bring them over to
the Mac.  The .shk files then copy with no problem.  Once on the IIgs, I
unshrink them to a floppy (ProDos of course) which works fine and is
playable.

Some games will allow me  to copy to the hard drive and run from there (Deja
Vu, Shadowgate, Arkanoid), but others seem to rely on the disks (seems like
older games like Pirates and Bards Tale).

I am having problems with Dungeon Master, does anyone know if this game
requires a ton of memory?  I only have 1.125mb (way too little for a full
System 6 on a HD), and it keeps crapping out on me.

I don't know if anyone remembers my other posts, but I am finally getting a
handle on the Apple II, and while frustrating at first, it is turing out to
be a lot of fun.  If not for this newsgroup I would have given up long ago!

Cheers!

Damon

"VZE26PJV" <rambo.dsl@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:o_z98.13479$gf5.7821@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
> 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.
>
> 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!!
>
>