Re: making acutal floppys out of .dsk images from the net

[bo snyder <bobo_snyder@hotmail.com>]

a question... this way and the other way that someone else mentioned using a
serial cable are fine, but are these the easiest ways of converting
downloaded dsk or do files  to 800 kb prodos floppys that my mac and
read/write??  from what i gather, the below listed method will decompress
the dsk or the do files once they are transferred to the gs itself.  there
is no way of decompressing the dsk files on the mac so that they can be
written directly to the 800kb floppy while on the mac and then all i have to
do is to put the floppy into the apple and just use it?

thanks again

> From: "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>
> Organization: Silicon Valley North, Inc. (http://www.svn.net)
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 13:24:22 -0700
> Subject: Re: making acutal floppys out of .dsk images from the net
> 
> Hey, that's cool. It's really great to write it up in cookbook style like
> that. It should be tried out and critiqued, then added to the faq.
> -Paul
> 
> Macnlos <macnlosNOSPAM@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:9pq721$8qs$1@slb5.atl.mindspring.net...
>> Search for the Apple II FAQ from Rubywand, it has a lot of information on
>> this.  I just finished doing what you are asking for the first time.  Here
>> is what I did:
>> 
>> 1) Download "ProType" for the mac (this is a file type changer for the
> mac)
>> 2) Download "gshk.sea" for the IIgs to your mac (this is a ShrinkIt
>> dearchiver)
>> 3) Download "asimov.shk" for the IIgs to your mac (this is a DSK image to
>> Floppy converter)
>> 4) Download "tchange" for the IIgs to your mac (this is a file type change
>> for the IIgs)
>> 5) Rename "tchange" to "tchange.txt"
>> 6) Drag "tchange.txt" onto "ProType" to convert it to a text type
> document.
>> 7) Copy "tchange.txt", "asimov.shk", "gshk.sea" to a ProDos 3.5" floppy.
>> 8) Boot the IIgs and get to the Basic prompt.
>> 9) Set the prefix to the floppy with "tchange.txt" on it.
>> 10) type:    BLOAD TCHANGE.TXT, TTXT, A2048
>> 11) type:    BSAVE TCHANGE.BIN, A2048, L15711
>> 12) type:    DELETE TCHANGE.TXT
>> 13) TCHANGE.BIN is now ready to run on the IIgs as a binary.
>> 14) Run TCHANGE.BIN and convert the "gshk.sea" file type to BIN.
>> 15) Now "gshk.sea" is ready to run.
>> 16) Run "gshk.sea" and it will extract itself and leave you with the GSHK
>> binary.
>> 17) Run the GSHK binary and extract the "asimov.shk" archive.
>> 18) You now should a working copy of asimov on you IIgs.
>> 19) Copy a DSK image file to a ProDOS floppy on your mac.
>> 20) Take that floppy to your IIgs and run "asimov" on it.
>> 21) Instruct "asimov" to extract the DSK image to floppy.
>> 22) Make sure that you have a formatted floppy in you disk drive.
>> 
>> Goodluck,
>> Macnlos
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