Re: Getting a disk image to a IIgs

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Tristan Mumford" <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom> wrote in message news:45f3254f$0$60330$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net...
: Greg Buchner wrote:
:
: > In article <45f20ec0$0$60346$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net>,
: >  Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom> wrote:
: >
: >> Tristan Mumford wrote:
: >>
: >> > Tristan Mumford wrote:
: >>
: >> > I just tried it out. The html with the ftp dir reckons they are disk
: >> > copy format. Disk copy on my mac won't recognise them.
: >>
: >> Sorry about the self reply.
: >> I got ADTPro working, and copied across a 2mg version of System 4. It
: >> just booted. Happy day!
: >
: > Good, because I didn't have GS System 4 sitting around, only 3.2, 5.0.2,
: > 5.0.4, 6.0 and 6.0.1...
: >
: > Anything else you might be interested in?
:
: ...Interested yes. But I need more RAM for some. Do you have any suggestions
: for anythin useful or fun? I really want to give the IIgs a good test
: drive.
:
: I thought I'd give some games a try. I've tried
: putting a few from
: http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/the_fairway/
: on to disk. None have worked for me so far. Each
: one fails to boot for a different reason. I suspect
: the floppies I'm using. The floppies format and
: verify correctly in prodos though.
: I've tried one game on a few disks so far to try
: to narrow down the problem. "Bubble Ghost".
: I'm going to try some other single disk games to
: try to pin what's happening.
: Nothing has changed between when I wrote the GS/OS
: disks and the game disks.

FYI: 2MG images have a header. They aren't straight
disk images. This header must be removed before they
are copied to disk.

Also, Shrinkit images need to be opened and then
file copied to a fresh disk image or blank disk.

William Garber
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