BluPhoenyx wrote:
CC Rider wrote:So if I'm stuck having to make some 3.5 floppies, what is the most expedient way to do it? I have a pc and a beige Mac Power PC that I could connect to the GS. Unfortunately, I don't presently have any media for the IIGS. I thought I could transfer some of the 2mg files on a cd to the Mac and format them using Diskcopy. Diskcopy doesn't seem to recognize them. I must be doing something wrong.The 2mg format is designed for emulators and is foreign to any hardware including the II series. IMHO, you should run an emulator. Load the 2mg images in the emulator drive as appropriate. Use Shrinkit on the files to create an archive. Transfer the new archive to the II. Once there, you can unpack it to any media of the correct (or larger) size. This method should work with any unprotected ProDOS 8 disk image.
Actually, if you make a disk archive (as opposed to a file archive), it should work for any disk that uses standard 16-sector formatting, regardless of file system--meaning DOS, ProDOS, Pascal, CP/M, etc., etc. -michael NadaNet networking for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."