Re: Tough Question

[mojoehand <jgray@zianet.com>]

On Nov 28, 7:06 pm, "RetroC64" <stede...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have a few .dsk images that I want to read on my LC III Apple 2 card. How
> can I do this?
>
> I was hoping there was a .dsk to 1.44meg floppy drive pro-dos partition
> thingy but I couldn't find anything.
>
> Thanks for your help.

I have been doing it this way:

1 - Download disk image on PC.
2 - Copy disk image file to floppy.
3 - On Mac, copy file from PC floppy.
4 - Use Resedit to change file type/creator to TEXT/pdos (use Get
Info, not Open).
You can also use Prodosifier for this, but I had mixed results.
5 - Copy patched file to ProDOS partition (filename <= 15 chars).
6 - Run Diskmaker8 (Apple II program on ProDOS partition).
7 - Open disk image in Diskmaker8 and write to a floppy.

The default for Diskmaker8 is to only write the image to the correct
size floppy disk. You can override this, but some disks won't work
this way. In particular, DOS.

When you attach a 5.25" floppy to the Mac, it can be the only external
floppy drive. You can use the Mac 3.5" drive for ProDOS disks. If you
attach an external 3.5" drive, it must be a Unidisk and it must
connect directly to the Mac. In this case, the 5.25" drive attaches to
the Unidisk. Regardless of where the drives are, 5.25" drives are slot
6 and 3.5" drives are slot 5.

I will soon have a SCSI hard drive controller on my IIgs, so things
will be a bit easier. I still want to get a CF/IDE card when I can
afford it. Maybe Santa will bring me one :-) I also want to see about
getting the IIgs networked. Then things will be much easier.