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Re: Getting a disk image to a IIgs
Greg Buchner wrote:
> In article <45f08dba$0$60345$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net>,
> Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom> wrote:
>
>> Greg Buchner wrote:
>>
>> > In article <45f081b0$0$60337$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net>,
>> > Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom> wrote:
>> >
>> >> That's right. My major problems are as follow:
>> >> * Not enough RAM to store a disk image in a RAMdisk to write it using
>> >> a GS based utility
>> >> * My Mac Classic has the ability to write the 800k disks but the only
>> >> software I have for doing so is Disk Copy. And I have found no
>> >> compatible images.
>> >
>> > What are you looking for in disk images? I should be able to make some
>> > that are Disk Copy 4.2 compatible. I have a Quadra 650 I keep around
>> > for dealing with Apple II stuff.
>> >
>> > Greg B.
>> >
>> One of the older GS/OS versions of System like 4? which will run in 512k
>> would be nice.
>> I need to get at least as far as a working OS that I can use to
>> experiment with.
>
> OK, I'll see what I have for an older GS/OS sitting around. I think I
> may have kept System 5, but might not have kept 4.
>
>> I'd appreciate anything you could convert though.
>
> Hmmm... That'd be a lot of stuff... I'll start digging through things
> to see what I can find.
I think mostly just any fairly essential utilities.
I have a bigger problem right now with a contaminated disk head anyway, so
no hurry.
What is a substitute for cleaning fluid in disk cleaners? It dried up long
ago. I remember there is something that can be used, just not what.
>
> Being that we're both on gmail should make any e-mails with files in
> them easier. Do you have StuffIt Expander on your Classic? Or anything
> that can deal with binhex (.hqx) files as older Disk Copy formats will
> definitely have a resource fork that has to be dealt with.
I do indeed have stuffit expander. I'd be lost without it.
Tristan.
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