Re: trying to get an Apple II GS going for fun...

[greg@apple2.com]

In article <3740f776.11281170@news.direct.ca>,
wizard@direct.ca (Astro) wrote:
>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>> 1) Get ProTYPE from the following site.
>> 2) Install ProTYPE

> Done...

>> 3) Get ShrinkIt! GS from the following site (ftp in binary mode
>>    or right click with a Windows browser or click and hold with
>>    a Mac browser and select download link/file).

> Grabbed 'em, they came in off the internet to my PC as "gshk11.1.txt"
> [etc] note: .txt or text files.

Text is fine.  They are BinSCII archives and thus text, so binary mode
downloading isn't required.  (Indeed, one cannot "FTP" something via
http:// URIs.)

Those files should be hosted with .BSQ extensions on them though.

>> 4) Pass all four gshk file archive through ProTYPE onto a
>>    ProDOS or HFS disk (preferably HFS if you already installed
>>    it.  ProTYPE will extract a single file.

> Well, for one thing, the Mac sees these files as "gshk11~1.txt" [etc]
> which at some point along the way was not a valid Mac format, so I had
> to remove the "~" in the filename. At first, before ProType, the icons
> for these 4 files were little white pages with lines [indicating text]
> on them. When I ran the files through ProTYPE, the icons changed to
> little blank pages. That's all that happened. It didn't prompt me for
> being able to pass the file[s] onto any disk at all. Assuming you
> meant they should end up on the disk, I dropped the 4 "converted" [?]
> files onto a ProDOS disk manually. 

This is where it failed.  You should have ended up with one file with a
.SEA extension, specifically "GSHK11.SEA".  It would still show up as a
blank page icon since the Mac doesn't know icons for files with a creator
of pdos.

Another option is to get the old BinSCII archive as BinSCII.exe (a text
file), transfer it to the GS, run ProDOS 8, and EXEC BINSCII.EXE.  That
will get you the 8-bit BinSCII application.  Then you can get ShrinkIt 8
as a .BSC file and extract that, then get GScii+ NDA and extract it with
BinSCII and ShrinkIt 8, and finally get those GSHK11 TXT files over, run
GScii+ on them, run the SEA, and you'll have GSHK.  Then you're ready for
anything.

Unfortunately I don't know my way around groud.ecn.uiowa.edu well enough
to locate all these files, let alone say with authority that they are even
there.

Whatever happened to the "BinSCII II" project?

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