Re: Using ,dsk images on a real Apple II -- help

["Chris Alaimo" <cpalaimo@gmail.com>]

I assume that "the hardware route" means using ADT.  I have to say that
it is BY FAR the easiest way to make 5.25" disks.  That or you can buy
a compact flash card or something.

You can't make them on a Mac because you can't plug a 5.25" DD into a
Mac, but you can copy a few disk images onto a prodos formatted disk,
and then take that disk over to your Apple and then make disks out of
the images.  I don't remember what program you use to do that though.

Chris


cph1...@gmail.com wrote:
> OK, I have a number of .dsk images (as used in WinApple and other
> emulators) and I'd like to make them into 5 1/4 disks for use on a real
> Apple II.
>
> I tried going the image->Macintosh->File Exchange onto a
> Prodos-formatted 3.5 disk route. The big snag with that is that File
> Exchange (3.0.1) insists on setting the Prodos filetype on all of the
> copied files to $00. These files are useless on the Apple II (cannot be
> read, deleted, or otherwise manipulated).
>
> I tried Protype (1.1) and changing the file types on the mac with
> ResEdit, to no avail. I even tried fooling with a couple of modems, but
> I really don't want to go the hardware route if at all possible.
>
> I've done this before about a year or two ago, and remember going
> through the same kinds of hell, but managed to get an image transferred
> to a 5 1/4 disk!
> 
> Help! Thanks in advance...