Re: IIgs, ShrinkIt 3.4, and a single 3.5" drive

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

Are you sure what you have with those SDK files? There is almost no reason
to EVER use the SDK format except when compressing 5.25 DOS 3.3 floppies. I
would expect SDK's to be compressions of 5.25 disks, which you absolutely
cannot unpack to a 3.5 disk.

Tom Zuchowski

"Justin Scott" <djnospam@impakt.net> wrote in message
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> Ok gurus... another question... I scanned the faqs, and didn't find what I
was
> looking for (unless I was looking in the wrong place).
>
> I have yet to get a 16-bit app running on my new IIgs.
>
> I have a copy of IIPLUS.UNSHRINK, and Shrink-IT 3.4, both 8-bit apps.
>
> I have some IIgs demos in .SDK format.
>
> Both programs read the files just fine.  IIPLUS.UNSHRINK has no concept of
> source and destination disk swapping.
>
> Shrink-It 3.4 does, but once it's done flipping the disks in and out a
couple
> times, and formatted the destination disk, it immediately comes up with a
Data
> Error $80 or something, and aborts the process.  -- I've tried multiple
SDK's
> and several blank disks (all of which were verified with C][+ 8.x).
>
> I found GS Shrinkit in BinSCII format, but it's just SEAs, and I don't
have an
> OS to launch them with. :)
>
> Is there anything I can do besides wait for my 2nd 3.5" drive to show up?
I
> have a couple 800k mac drives (inside their macs) out in the garage, and
read
> in the FAQs where it discusses replacing the mechanism of the IIgs drive
with
> a Mac drive... but nothing about cobbling a Mac mechanism onto the chain
(that
> I could see) without a cable and case....  Think I could cobble something
> together?
>
> This is a ROM 01 board, no extra RAM, so the ramdisk idea is dead too.
> Especially since it seems that Shrink-It 3.4 has no concept of a /RAM
prefix.
>
> Again guys and gals, I really appreciate you assistance getting me up to
speed
> w/ the IIgs. :)
>
> cheers,
> j