Re: How to transfer files from Internet to Apple IIGS

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

left_the_scene wrote:

>Wrong. There is no way the GS will read an MFM encoded disk, not matter 
>what format, unless you have a superdrive controller.
>
>Doing what steve says will produce a disk that CAN be read on a GS with 
>  a superdrive controller, but since such a GS can read native MS-Dos 
>disks, why nother? Just put an ms-dos disk in the gs.

One good reason to bother is that this method completely bypasses
the 8.3 filename problem of the IIgs's DOS FST.  That's a big deal
if you have a lot of files to rename.


>
>Steve Sanders wrote:
>
>> There is another way. Go to 
>> http://www.dataviz.com/products/conversionsplus/index.html and checkout 
>> the program Conversions Plus. It allows you to format Zip disks or 3.5 
>> disks with the Mac HFS file system. Make sure you have the HFS FST 
>> loaded on the IIgs and it will read and write the disk.
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> left_the_scene wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>>
>>> Giorgio Ungarelli wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm sure this has been answered before, but I can't seem to find a 
>>>> "recent"
>>>> answer:
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to write 3.5 floppy disks on a PC in a format that an 
>>>> Apple
>>>> IIGS can read (under GS/OS 6.0.1)?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The short answer is no. Unless you get a superdrive controller and 
>>> 1.44 drive for the GS.
>>>
>>>
>>>> I would like to transfer quite a lot IIGS software that one can freely
>>>> download from the Internet onto my IIGS, but I don't have access to a 
>>>> Mac.


-michael

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