Re: Third site for obtaining ProTYPE now in use!

[bjbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin)]

In article <5ibpck$k1c@uni.library.ucla.edu>, pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:

> bjbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin) wrote:
> in response to my reply:
> >> B.J., remember that most GS programs have resource forks.  Even
> >> if you use ProTYPE and get those archives into a form that the
> >> 8-bit unshrink and unbinscii programs can recognize, you have a
> >> second problem of unpacking the files once the archive is open.
> >> 8-bit ProDOS Shrink-It! will not unpack files that themselves
> >> contain a resource fork (that is, GS programs with resource forks
> >> that have been archived by GSHK).  At some point, you will need
> >> GSHK.
> >
> >The resource fork issue is being taken care of quite nicely with the use of
> >ProTYPE on the Mac end.  I have yet to run into a file that will not unpack
> >once the file is open, and I've put all these archives under the ProTYPE
> >treatment.
>> 
> 
> Go to the ground FTP site, look in the apple16/games directory and
> download lemmings.shk or some other GS game.  Try unpacking it with
> ProTYPE and 8-bit Shrink-It.  Won't work.

Maybe so, but I've downloaded plenty of GS games like Dr. Mario, PuyoPuyo,
Q*Burt GS, Columns GS, Lode Runner GS, etc. etc. and all these work
perfectly on the GS after running them through ProType & then 8-bit
Shrink-it.  If I need the GSHK at some point for other files, I'll go get
it, but right now I haven't come across any GS games that need it to work.

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--bj
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