Re: Need Help with file conversion

[madsci@tribeca.ios.com (Erick Dietrich)]

In article <324A709B.4C30@wctc.net>, jfriess@wctc.net wrote:

> In article <6HR52hcHDAB@hit-uli.hit.handshake.de>,
> >Ulrich Pfingstag <uli@hit.handshake.de> wrote:
> >>    I have  recently  replaced  my  Apple  II  GS  with a Macintosh
> >>    Performa 630  CD. How can  I use or  convert my Apple  GS files
> >>    (stored on 3 1/2" disks  in ProDOS format, Program: Bank Street
> >>    Writer)  on my  Macintosh? Are  there any  shareware conversion
> >>    programes or something similar?
> 
> Nathan Mates replies:
> 
> >   No conversion programs that I know about. Keeping your GS around to
> >convert them to raw text first would have been a good idea. You may be
> >able to force a "load as ascii text" from some mac programs, but if
> >there are formatting codes or the like, it'll come out very poorly.
> 
> But, Nate, isn't there an Apple II card for the Macintosh, won't it fit 
> into the Performa 630CD, and won't it run Bank Street Writer and other 
> ProDos programs?  (Ulrich, I see you've posted to the Mac groups too, 
> maybe they have mentioned this and other _possible_ solutions?)

Whoa!  Wait a minute.  The IIe card works in a 630CD?  Is there a list
anywhere of compatible machines?

Perhaps he could use an emulator, like IIe, to run Bank Street and save
the files as text.  IIe  version 3 is amazing!  (Now all I have to do is
register!)  Its even pretty nice on my PowerBook.  

-Erick