Re: Help! 5.25 disk "images" to 800k 3.5?

[Slick <PAYSlick_RCBD@hotmail.com>]

I've only tried Bernie once, but I remember something about "low level
disk support". Couldn't the Mac initialize a ProDOS disk, launch Bernie,
and use the IIGS Finder to copy from the 5.25" disk image to the 3.5"
disk? I don't need Bernie, since sitting a few feet away from the Mac
I'm using now is a ROM 1 IIGS. I just used Bernie once it to play with
my computer illiterate mother's mind (With "Welcome to the IIGS" on the
Mac's screen, followed by the IIGS Finder) and deleted it afterward. To
keep it would bave been a waste of hard drive space.
Rubywand wrote:
> 
> Miles Buck wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I recently acquired an Apple //c+ (the one with the 3.5 drive) that had
> > no software with it..Is there a way to get a disk image of a 5.25 disk
> > (like from Asimov) and use Bernie ][ or Gus(or any emulator) to mount
> > that image, and somehow copy what's on the "disk" to a real 3.5 inch
> > Prodos-formatted disk, that I may put it in the //c+ and will work???
> > Maybe there's a utility for this??? ANY help is greatly appreciated
> >
> 
>      Possibly, you have given Henrik an idea for something else to add
> to Bernie. I do not know whether or not any Apple2 emulator can read
> files from a 5.25" DSK and write them to a ProDOS 3.5" diskette (or
> write them to a 3.5" DSK which some utility might convert to a ProDOS
> diskette).
> 
>      Even if an A2 emulator can do some 5.25" DSK to 3.5" diskette
> transfers, your big problem would be dealing with DOS 3.3 DSK's and many
> DSK's created from deprotected diskettes. Some of these do not even have
> identifiable files. Others employ custom DOS's, etc.. Even 'plain DOS
> 3.3' files would have to be converted for ProDOS or somehow transferred
> to and modified for running under one of the 3.5" versions of DOS.
> 
>      The quickest, easiest solution to getting up and running with your
> //c+ is to contact a local Apple2 group or user and get some bootable
> utility diskettes. If there is no local group or user you can contact,
> you can try searching comp.sys.apple2.marketplace for suppliers. If none
> of these ideas gets you anywhere, you can always email one of the
> regular Csa2 posters and offer to pay the cost of sending you 2-3
> diskettes with getting-started stuff.
> 
>      Getting bootable 3.5" diskettes with ProDOS and some utils will
> make a big difference in what you can do. But, you also want to be able
> to access games and other 5.25" software archived as DSK, DSK.gz, and
> .SDK files. To do this you will need to add a 5.25" drive which can plug
> into your //c+ -- for example, a Apple II "Platinum" 5.25" drive.
> 
>      Most likely, Steve Buggie (505-863-2390; email:
> buggie@auriga.unm.edu) can sell you a good 5.25" drive for your //c+.
> 
> 
> 
> Rubywand

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