Re: Help //c -> IIgs -> mac disk transfer

["Cyril Lambin" <lambin@cohprog.com>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Cool!  Then you would LOVE the IIGS demos.  Many fooled around with
> IIGS video by doing something similar. [...]
> Now the IIGS has other video tricks such as fill mode.  You only need
> to draw the outline of an object and in fill mode, the hardware fills in
> the pixels.  Combine this with the 32-channel Ensoniq wavetable
> synthesis chip humming a tune in the background and you'll have cool
> demos.

Can I find IIgs demos on some FTP? I must return it quickly and I'd like to
watch some of them...
I guess there was no demo that made music with the disk drive motor
though...
Anyway I know how that kind of multiscan mode is working, but I guess on the
IIgs it was hardware programming while on the ST it was software bugging...
^_^;
I like the IIgs actually, I haven't seen it working on graphic mode (except
once, ten years ago) but I just like to see an Apple II booting with a blue
screen.

> Could be.  Since the IIGS cannot use the same software as Macs,
> it can only use Mac keyboards that don't require a driver when
> used on the Mac.  Thus, if the keyboard does not require a software
> driver on the Mac, it'll work on the IIGS.  Usually.  Naturally, most
> of Apple's keyboards work on both Mac and IIGS.

I tried with an Apple keyboard, it worked perfectly. I'm amazed the work
Apple engineer did, their perfectly compatible with all the old application
even if they should not be handled the same way at all on the hardware
level.

> That's too bad (the IIc+ not being released in France).  It was the
> best non-GS Apple II.

I guessed it was... It's a pity because now you can find IIc's for 200f
(about $35) but I already have two and what I need is only a 3.5" drive...
^_^;

BTW I could not download system 5.x nor system 6.x but I've got a System
tooldisk (3.1) so I could copy all files from my old diskettes to less old
ones... I could not mount those 800k ProDos disks on the Mac but ShrinkWrap
recognize them so I made images of them, and I can mount the images... Phew.
Now to run under emulators (yeah, that's my final aim), I need to copy them
back to Hard drive or diskettes (dsk) images. I think I have a small program
which do this.
Oh, and thanks for the prefix command, it was great help because it seems
ProDos doesn't allow too much files in the root directory.

Cyril.