Re: WANTED: IIC+ disk images

[Tim Hull <thully@worldnet.att.net>]

I have already download the ProDOS to my mac and onto an 800K disk.
Works nicely.
I then proceeded to download binscii and shrinkit from a software
archive.  I noticed that many copies of binscii were shrunk, and many
copies of shrinkit were binsciied.
I was able to get tchange to change file types of files, though.
When I tried binscii, the files that it came in looked like it had extra
linefeeds, and I got SYNTAX ERROR.  Shrinkit gave me an OUT OF MEMORY
error.  This is weird considering I have an IIc+.  I tried the Apple II
Plus version, but that dodn't work.

How can I get Binscii-shrinkit to work?
I read the Faqs.

Tim Hull


Paul Grammens wrote:
> 
> Tim Hull wrote:
> 
> > I just picked up a used IIC+, but it had no disks with it.
> > I want to get a comm program for it, could you please tell me how to
> > get one that will run on an 800K disk?
> > I have a Macintosh.
> 
> OK, you're in luck. You can download the ProDos software from Apple's
> software archives. Format some 800K ProDos disks and use DiskCopy to
> transfer the disk images to floppy. Then you can go to one of the
> archives and download binscii, shrinkit, and other utils which you'll
> need for extracting archives. Get the Apple II faq which explains all
> this. Rubywand has the faq at his website:
> 
> http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2T1TCOM.html
> 
> As far as comm software, I use a shareware program called Agate which
> has Zmodem. Most of the other downloadable com programs don't. Get it
> here:
> 
> http://www.umich.edu/~archive/apple2/8bit/comm/
> 
> Having been thru all this fairly recently, I can tell you that it can be
> complicated to get all this working. Binscii is a text file that can be
> executed, just follow the directions. Use that to extract Shrinkit,
> which will make everything else much easier. Another big problem is the
> Mac forking the files you download, and changing the "type". Read about
> how to get around that in the faq. Good luck, and be patient and
> persevere. At least you have a IIc+, which makes this a lot easier than
> doing it on an Apple II with only 5.25" drives. Another thing is check
> out thrift shops, they often have boxes of old Apple II software. Dig
> around for some boot disks and utils such as DiskCopy II Plus, etc.
> -Paul