Re: Image Conversion

[William Austin <wraustin@SPAMbGONE.ix.netcom.com>]

Labelas Enoreth wrote:

> In article <36ADF1EA.599DF305@SPAMbGONE.ix.netcom.com>,
> wraustin@SPAMbGONE.ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > I've downloaded this utility and am going to try it out.  I'll let you
> know how
> > the results go shortly.  I'm hopeful.
> Well, tell me if it goes well...
>

I tried it, but I still get either an "unable to load program" notice either from
the //e software or from ProDOS itself.  I'm overlooking something obvious
somewhere, I think.

>
> > I've downloaded Shrinkit several times and still can't get it to work.  I
> > un-Binscii it on my mac (with a Mac utility to do such things  :-)  but
> the //e
> > loads ProDOS and says "Cannot load file."  As I said, I'll let you know
> in a bit
> > whether or not it works.
> Hmm. Have you tried the application 'Shrink II' for macintosh? It's on
> some of the FTPs, I'm sure someone can give you the link, and that will
> let you debinscii and unshrink right on the mac...then you can just drag
> the files over in the comfort of the macintosh finder.
>

To the best of my rummaging ability, ShrinkII is still a commercial utility.  At
the moment, I just want to see if the thing will work alright.  It may be a
consideration down the road, but shelling out money right now isn't necessarily a
wise thing  :-)

>
> > I can't get Catakig to work.  It needs a runtime library that I either
> can't find
> > or can't get to work.  I'm looking for XGS, but the page is offline right now.
> > Thanks again!
> Well, the app I'm thinking of didn't need you to run the app itself, there
> was a small folder with it named...imageutils? or maybe utils? dunno. but
> it had one or two sort of ugly little text-based apps, but they do the job
> ok. Have you tried http://emulation.net? I thought he had a copy of XGS
> locally...

Hmm...I don't think Catakig had such, but XGS is rumored to.  Emulation.net didn't
have any local d/l for XGS.  The author of the Mac port has his page down right
now.  I'll check later.  Right now, I'm just plugging along, wondering what I'm
doing wrong.  I have some external 5.25 and 3.5 drives on the way.  I'll see if
they can help (got 'em free).

Will