Re: Looking for MS-DOS translator for IIgs

[zaster@pro-ict.cts.com (Harvey Brinda)]

Dave Roberts wrote:
>dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
>[really informative post]
>>A fourth possibility is a PC Transporter.  It pulls some tricks to
>>allow an Apple 3.5 Drive to read and write 720k MS-DOS disks, albeit
>>slowly.  If you decided to get a PC Transporter, I'd recommend getting
>>another disk drive for it, and leaving your existing Apple 3.5 Drive
>>connected to the IIgs disk port.  A 3.5" drive connected to the PC
>>Transporter is _very_ slow at accessing Apple disks, and is not
>>compatible with some software (particularly copy protected software,
>>demos and games which don't run under GS/OS or standard ProDOS-8).
 
>        One other annoyance, disks formatted and written to by
>the PCT on an Apple 3.5" drive show up as having bad sectors
>o
>and go to print it out on the school's laser printers but it
>can't be read :(
>--
>Dave J. Roberts [daver on IRC - #appleiigs]                /|
>daver@drift.winternet.com                                /  |urora
>UNIX C & Apple IIgs C/65816 Programmer                 /___ | Software

I've also had trouble with MS-DOS disks written by the PC-Transporter.
But I found that formatting the disks on an I*M and then just copying 
files to the preformatted disk to work with no noticable errors.

Later.

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Harvey Brinda
zaster@pro-ict.cts.com