Michael J. Mahon wrote:
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.
Yes but that forces one to use a floppy medium when it may not be necessary. A file based archive can be extracted to anything, provided there is space left on the storage device. Don't misunderstand though, I do use SDK images as well but I prefer the file based method for general use. In the case of the OP, he might have been using 3.5 or 5.25 depending on which media he manages to acquire.
It's funny though, I was thinking the OP didn't have a 5.25 floppy. I must have crossed some wires somewhere and confused this thread with another. Could be just too much time in the RPG games.
Cheers, Mike T.