Re: MAC > Apple II

[usi@wyvern.wyvern.com (Luis Melgoza)]

Clifford Mauck <mauckc@cpva.saic.com> writes:

>My daughter has a Apple II at her school. I would like to download
>software with my
>MAC and run it on her school computer.

>How can I do this?  Are the 3.5" disks formated the same?

>Thanks in advance.

No, the disks have a different format for PRODOS -the most common Apple II
OS- than for Mac; however, you can format PRODOS disks in your Mac's drive
trhough Apple File Exchange -included with most Macs as far as I know-.

Most Apple II software available for downloading is compressed with a
utility called ShrinkIt! -shareware available wherever there is Apple II
software to download-.

The process is very simple, just download ShrinkIt! -the Self-extracting
copy- to your Mac, together with any other software you wish, open Apple
File Exchange after ending communications, insert a blank or PRODOS
formatted disk in the Mac, and have Apple File Exchange translate the files
to the disk. You will have to decompress any shrunk file -suffixes BQY, BXY,
SHK are the most common- to run them in the Apple.

Furthermore, there are some Apple files GS specific -PRODOS 16-, and others
than run in only ][+, IIc and IIe enhanced. Several more run in any Apple.
SOme are in Pascal. others in DOS 3.3, but most will be in either PRODOS 8
or 16 -the 8 stands for 8 bits, and the 16 for 16 bits; the difference
between real Apple II's and the GS-.

Hope this helps!
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