Re: Mac to GS fie transfers, arghh!

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Sep 26, 12:48 pm, SteveB <sbi...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> So I have unpacked my old GS after many years and would like to get some
> of the games I used to like on it, specifically Alien Mind, Gnarly Golf,
> Zany Golf. After many hours of configuring my iMac G5 and old Color
> Classic, I can download the games, ethernet transfer from the iMac OSX
> to Color Classic with sys 7.6.1, can ProDOS format an 800k floppy,
> however everything I downloaded seems to be too large to fit on a 800 k
> floppy.

You might use the Asimov program (http://www.ninjaforce.com/html/
products.html) once you get a (un)shrinker working.  That'll allow you
to take whole-disk images like .po and .2mg and reconstitute physical
disks from the image.

> Next I was apple to network the GS running 6.0.1 to the Color Classic
> and transfer the files from the Mac to the GS hardrive, thought I was
> home free....now the GS doesn't recognize the files, .sea files won't
> open and can't open .shk files as I can't get GSShrinkIt to unpack on
> the GS either. I'm sure I have file type/creator problems but don't know
> how to solve this. Can I fix this on the Mac side or have to find a
> filetype working program for the GS?

Maybe.  It's a fiddly business, those filetypes.  Especially when
transferring between Mac and GS using finder or mac-produced ProDOS
diskettes.  You can BRUN tchange directly on the GS if you can get its
filetype changed to $06 (BIN); you can use the instructions you
already read if its filetype is $04 (TXT).  It sounds like the
filetype is now $00 (UNK).  A quick CAT will tell you what type the GS
thinks it is.  You can use this command to load it, based on the type
it is:
BLOAD TCHANGE.BIN,A2048,T$00