Re: Using a Mac to make disk images?

["Henrik Gudat" <emutech@magnet.schweiz>]

In article <021019991231033604%bvito@ne.mediaone.net> , bvito 
<bvito@ne.mediaone.net>  wrote:

> I have some Apple II disks (including the ProDOS 4.02 system disk --
> which is really the most important) that I need to make disk images of
> on my PowerMac 9500 running MacOS 8.6.  What should I do to ensure that
> I create valid disk images while not harming the actual disks?  Should
> I boot my Mac with an earlier OS like 7.6?  Should I use DART, DiskCopy
> 4.2 or DiskCopy 6.x?  Thanks for the help, it is imperative that I make
> images of these disks that will be able to create working Apple II
> system disks in the future.

Hello,

You should go with DiskCopy. The actual version does not matter really
as long as you're using 4.2 or later and you are not using DiskCopy
6's compressed disk image formats. Emulators can not process
compressed DiskCopy files so you will be better off if you stay clear
of them. Of course, if your intention is not to use them with
emulators, you do not need to worry about this.

regards,
henrik

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