Re: Still need help: Apple II <-> Macintosh

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Kris Kelley <gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:

>Regarding the second set up, I do have a file currently on the Mac
>called "shrinkit34.sdk".  I've tried copying this file to a ProDOS disk,
>but since I do not know my way around ProDOS, and the Apple IIe was
>unwilling to load the disk it was on (the ol' "UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS"
>error message), I haven't been able to do anything with it.  Again, all
>help will be appreciated.

Why didn't I think of this sooner!  You've run into a chicken and the
egg problem because shrinkit34.sdk is a shrink-it archive, so why
not just have a Mac owner make a ProDOS 3.5" double density 3.5"
disk with shrink-it on it an use diskcopy to make a disk image?
Then you could un-diskcopy the image into a disk with ready to use
shrink-it on the Mac.  The disk could be taken to the IIe and used.

Oh, and the UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS problem has nothing to
do with shrink-it.  You just don't have ProDOS and Basic.System
files on the disk.

Someone should place a diskcopy image containing 8-bit shrinkit,
gs shrinkit, gscii+, and bscit on the public ftp servers like ground and
Caltech.