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how to help an Apple IIe user help himself use disk images
- Subject: how to help an Apple IIe user help himself use disk images
- From: SlickRCBD <spamyourself@127.0.0.1>
- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:51:25 -0500
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I know somebody who just got his hands on an Apple IIe system, that has
only 2 5.25" drives. NO hard drive, no 3.5" drive. Only 128K of RAM.
How would he use a resource like Asimov to download games or other
programs and copy them onto 5.25" disks so he can play them?
He's been asking me to use my Apple IIGS, it's hard drive and LocalTalk
connection to a PowerMac (Powermac downloads from internet, IIGS copies
from the network to local, decompresses and writes) to do the job, but
is there some way he can do it himself?
The problem is that 5.25" disk images are larger than the capacity of a
5.25" disk, and the programs I use to write them back to floppy disks
require them to be uncompressed. So, how would he get the disk image
onto his computer in order to write them back to floppies? 128K of RAM
means no RAMdisk like the way I use my PC Transporter card to store the
uncompressed disk images on prior to writing.