Re: Getting Shrinkit to IIGS for the first time

[paul_demarni@telus.net]

In article <8nkpjg$tul$1@spies.com>,
  fadden@spies.com (Andy McFadden) wrote:
> In article <399d7f10@news1.svn.net>, Paul Grammens <grammens@svn.net>
wrote:
> >We should make a disk image with a bunch of utilities on it, so
anyone who
> >can create the GS OS system disks can just make one more with utils
on it
> >such as Shrinkit, ShrinkitGS, a couple of freeware and/or shareware
comm
> >programs, etc.
>
> Such things exist.  The trick is getting from a disk image to a real
> disk on a physical machine.  It's easy to get an emulator up and
running,
> much harder to boot-strap a real Apple II unless you have something
else
> that can write discs in the correct format.



Apple has made it easy to get the IIGS system disks, having them in Mac
archive format, in Disk Copy images which using your Macintosh, writes
out the appropriate (Prodos?) disk that you load right into Apple IIGS.
Unfortunately Disk Copy does not work with the seperate Shrinkit files I
have found on the net.

My Macintosh Classic only has System 6.XX on it, so it doesn't have the
utilities to write out the Shrinkit file seperately. I believe an update
to System 7.5.3 on my Macintosh will help, but that is another Apple
paradox as you need System 7.0.1 to install 7.5.3, and System 7.0.1 is
only available in one 5Mb file that is not transportable to my Mac via
my exchange software that operates with 1.4 Mb discs. I find it kind of
strange that Apple has 7.5.3 available as seperate disc images, yet
7.0.1 is all in one large file.

If only someone had Shrinkit wrapped up in a Mac archive, Disk Copy
writable image....... is this do-able or has it already been done?


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