Re: Using AppleTalk to pass files to the IIgs

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 29, 6:47 am, "rebocardo" <reboca...@treegone.com> wrote:
>> I want to run a cross assembler on a MAC or PC and transfer the files to the
>> GS, which I want to equipment with the CFFA card if that makes a difference.
> 
> I see what you're trying to do, and as Andrew points out, you'll need
> some form of LocalTalk ->Ethernet bridge to make it happen.

I've successfully used an EtherTalk printer bridge, using netatalk on a
Linux box.  Before I had a CFFA and CiderPress I did my backup by creating
a ShrinkIt file archive of hard drive partitions onto a large (2GB)
HFS partition and copying them over with AppleTalk.

(In some ways this is what encouraged the creation of CiderPress -- you
can't open an archive that big with ShrinkIt, and trying to pick through
it with YankIt or NuLib2 is annoying.)

> If you intend to do your development on the other machine, it's
> probably easier to use one of the IIgs emulators for testing and only
> ship data via the CF card at major milestone points in your
> development cycle.

This is a much saner way to go.  I wrote my "circles" demo this way last
year, using KEGS to boot an image of my IIgs hard drive that I made
with CiderPress.  (http://fadden.com/dl-apple2/#fdraw)

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