Re: Image Conversion

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

Two things...one, the files you are downloading may be losing their type
when you download them and then copy to the prodos partition...perhaps
'ProTYPE' would be handy for you, if you can find a copy of it....dunno
where to look.
If you download Shrinkit, and you end up with a .sys file (I did with my
copy) after you decompress it, it should look like a little IIgs. copy
that to the prodos partition, double-click it, and voila (I know, I left
out an accent or two)...it will run.
This is just a small bit of your problem, but hope it helps.

Secondly, if you download Catakig (or maybe it is XGS...I've forgotten),
there comes with it a small mac app which will convert between all the
different emulator disk image formats, which is good for converting some
of the others into .dsk format.

Rubywand: technically, in a small way, isn't the IIe card kind of emulation?
I mean, a lot of the IIe's functionality is mapped to LC components, but
some of it is wholly mapped in software as well.



In article <36ACCEB5.4FFF60AD@SPAMbGONE.ix.netcom.com>,
wraustin@SPAMbGONE.ix.netcom.com wrote:

> Rubywand wrote:
> 
> >      The //e card in your Mac is not really an emulator. It is supposed
> > to _be_ an enhanced Apple //e (with a few exceptions, such as having no
> > Slots and handling the video through the Mac).
> >
> >      If the Mac can download .dsk files or (download and uncompress
> > .dsk.gz files to .dsk files) AND if the //e can access the .dsk files,
> > then, you should be able to run DSK2FILE (from the //e) to convert the
> > .dsk files to diskette form via a diskette in the //e 5.25" disk drive.
> 
> This is where my problem occurs.  I have a 10Mb ProDOS partition on my
> harddrive.  My BASIC.SYSTEM and PRODOS.SYSTEM files are there.  I can copy
> files into this partition using the Mac finder, and they show up under a
> CATALOG command, but I can't execute anything, nor can I see anything but
> those two files under the ProDOS "finder" (after typing BYE at the prompt).
> I can't even get BINSCII or SHRINKIT to work.  They're there on the disk, but
> the DOS won't recognize it.
> 
> I thought the whole thing was worth scrapping until I downloaded a utility
> disk from Apple's website.  It came as an 800k ProDOS DiskCopy image.  I made
> a 3.5" diskette out of it and it works perfectly.  I'm confused!  :-)
> 
> Will