Re: Looking for MS-DOS translator for IIgs

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <377l2l$k7g@blackice.winternet.com>,
Dave Roberts <daver@drift.winternet.com> 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
> on clones.

Yes.  This doesn't affect all PCs.  The best workaround is usually to
format the disks on a real PC and only write to them from the PC
Transporter.

I'm using a SuperDrive and SuperDrive card with my PC Transporter,
which avoids the problem completely.  (This probably won't last much
longer, though - I'll be putting another ZIP into my IIgs soon, and I
don't want a conflict with the PCT, so I'm going to remove it.  It may
end up in my second machine, or I might just mothball it.)

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David Empson
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