Re: Converting Apple II files to Mac

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"Roger Johnstone" <bhmhome@es.co.nz> wrote:

>ClarisWorks 5 has import filters for AppleWorks word processor, database and
>spreadsheet files. I don't know what versions of AppleWorks it supports, I
>doubt anything past 3.0. It also has an import for AppleWorks GS. I've never
>tried this, I don't know if it is just for the word processor or for any
>AWGS module. It also has an export filter for saving a word processor file
>in AppleWorks 2.0 format.

The input filter for AWGS only supports the word processor.  However,
you can EASILY transfer page layout module documents by "printing
to disk" with the IIGS LaserWriter driver.  Then use System 6.0.1
Finder with HFS FST installed to copy the resulting Postscript file to
an HFS disk.  Take the HFS disk to a Mac.  You may have to set
the file type on the Mac to Postscript to get some programs to see
the file as Postscript.  Final step, go into any Mac program that can
support opening a Postscript file (CorelDRAW, for example) and
presto, your neatly layed out desktop publishing document appears
before your eyes, just as if the IIGS were printing directly to a Laser-
Writer printer (for widest compatibility, use the LaserWriter driver
from System 6.0 and install it in System 6.0.1).

>>Another difficulty occurs in that the Apple II uses DS/DD (double-sided,
>>double density) floppy disks and drives, rather than the DS/HD
>>(double-sided, high density) floppies the later Macs use.  Of course, the
>>Mac uses only 3.5" floppies.  Do earlier Macs read both DS/DD disks and
>>DS/HD disks?  Is this a function of the Mac hardware (i.e. earlier models
>>of the Mac), or of the OS version?  Would one have to find a Mac which can
>>read both kinds of disks?  In other words, how can one convert data
>>written on a DS/DD Apple II disk so that it can be read by a Mac which
>>reads only DS/HD drives?
>
>The Apple high density floppy drives (included with all Macs after about
>1989, including the Centris) can read double density 720KB PC, 800KB Apple
>and 1.44MB Apple/PC formats. With the right controller card you can also add
>one of these drives to a IIgs, but the vast majority of IIgs drives are
>800KB only. The problem is with the latest floppyless Macs. All of the third
>party drives available so far (and probably ever) can do 720KB PC or 1.44MB
>Apple/PC formats only.

Well, not all third party drives.  The old high density SuperDrive clones
from AMR, Applied Engineering, and Sprite can do 800k, 720k, and
1.44MB.  In fact, I have an AE high density drive connected to a
SuperDrive controller card on my IIGS.

The funny thing about AE's drive...with the right driver, it can do 1.6MB
high density without any extra card.  In fact, it can ONLY do this when
connected directly to the IIGS SmartPort.  Of course that's not as
useful anymore since you need 1.44MB to transfer data with PCs.