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Re: Getting a disk image to a IIgs
Polymorph wrote:
> On Mar 11, 9:14 am, "William Garber" <willy4...@garberstreet.com>
> wrote:
>> "Tristan Mumford" <xtristan.xmumf...@xgmail.xcom> wrote in
>> messagenews:45f3254f$0$60330$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net...
>> : Greg Buchner wrote:
>>
>> :
>> : > In article <45f20ec0$0$60346$c30e3...@lon-reader.news.telstra.net>,
>> : > Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumf...@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
>> Email Address - willy4...@garberstreet.com
>> Alt. Email - willy4...@comcast.net
>> Web address -http://www.garberstreet.com
>
> Bill,
>
> If Tristan is using ADTPro, then transferring 2mg files is fine as
> ADTPro automatically removes the header.
>
> cheers,
> -p
The corruption actually turned out to be a combination of a bad ground, and
bad transfers in the first place. Now the ground is fixed it's working
better. Something still seems very wrong though.
Copying files in GS/OS is even worse than I would have expected. It only
does a very tiny amount of data before it asks for a disk change. I realise
1.25mb isn't gigantic (yes I upgraded to that today), but nearly half
should be free when doing a transfer. It seems like it's inly getting 1 or
2 k per read.
Any ideas? It's the same in both system 4 and 5.
Tristan.
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