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Re: How to transfer files from Internet to Apple IIGS



Okay, I'll buy the fact you need a Super Drive controller card ($59 from Shreve Systems) and a Super Drive ($89 for Shreve Systems) to read a 3.5" disk formatted with "Mac Format" on the PC. However, most new PCs come with a Zip drive installed and yes I have a RAMFast SCSI card with a SCSI Zip disk on the IIgs. Do not need SCSI on both systems.

If he doesn't have SCSI, and would like to get the Super Drive package from Shreve Systems, that's a fairly inexpensive road to travel. BTW, Shreve Systems had everything in stock as recently as this week. That's when I purchased mine.



left_the_scene wrote:


"Michael J. Mahon" wrote:

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.



Which really doesn't help with the question that was asked all that
much. Ya still can't read such a disk in a GS without adding a
superdrive controller.