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

[wizard@direct.ca (Astro)]

On 15 May 1999 09:22:54 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

It's a bit of a roller-coaster ride.

>Use the same method you did [to convert the System 6.0.1 system disk]
> to convert all six System 6.0.1 disks...

Yep that project is definately on the agenda. Now when I ran the
system disk file through Stuffit on the Mac it turned into [expanded
into] a .SEA file. According to one reference material I picked up
along the way, a .SEA file is a "Self-extracting archive (Might be
Mac, Might be Shrinkit archive)"... which is kinda weird cause it
didn't seem to self-extract, I ran it through ShrinkWrap and it copied
as a disk image onto the floppy. What I was more expecting was
something like a .IMG or a .DSK file representing a disk image, but I
guess I may have been a little off-track in this [see below]... 

>folder of each one until you find an FST file named HFS.FST.  Copy
>that file to the FST folder of the System 6.0.1 "system disk" that you
>currently have.  Once you reboot, you'll be able to read and write
>and even format Mac HFS 800k disks!

Cool. Umm... can it be copied in there in addition to the other 2
FST's that are already in there? I assume it can provided the disk
capacity can handle it. The more FST's, the more kinds of disks you
can read at once? Or is it just 1 at a time?

>Keep that HFS.FST file handy too because you can also use it when
>your System 5.0.4 disks come.

Yeppers.

>You should also take a look at the "synthLAB" disk...

Will do, I am into music apps on my PC so that should be extra-fun!!!

Now onto a couple of brick walls I have run into...
 
Nothing happens when I try to double-click on objects. A single-click
definately hi-lights objects, but so far no amount of double-clicking
does anything. Maybe my mouse is fritzed. I'll have to swap it with
another one and see if anything happens.

And now the bombshell. Delighted with my success in setting up the
system disk, I eagerly went back to the Mac and got into a
power-session. [It's an older Performa so actually it was like a
time-elapsed-power-session]. First I wanted to get ShrinkIt onto a
disk so I can use it to expand a whole bunch of .SHK archives I picked
up on the internet with my PC. I had downloaded and brought with me a
file called shrinkit2.dsk which I tried to run through ShrinkWrap.
Didn't work, no error messages, no action, nothing. I used the Mac to
connect to the internet and hastily tried to locate ShrinkIt [a
different format] and I found something called shrinkit.gs.exe which I
copied to an 800k floppy and brought home to the IIGS, but in Finder
when I tried to open it, I got a "Cannot find application" error, so I
dropped into a ProDOS prompt and tried RUN and BRUN on it, getting
like a "No Path" error or something. 

Anyways, while I was there [with the Mac] I copied a bunch of .SHK
files to floppy and one thing I noticed was that the filenames had to
be changed to for example "CASTLE~1.SHK" to "CASTLE.SHK" before they
would copy. Looks like MS-DOS! Maybe my failure to copy the
shrinkit2.dsk to disk was a similar problem, or maybe it has something
to do with something Supertimer referred to in a previous posting: to
the effect that a .dsk file is not valid for Apple II use and must
first be converted?

As we can see, I am still swimming around in all of the
file-format-conversion issues which is a key element of my Apple IIGS
restoration project.

Everywhere you look, it's all Science...

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~~~Astro~~~ 
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Vancouver, BC
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