Re: Where is Lemmings?

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

"Mark Manning" <markem@airmail.net> wrote in message 
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> Mitchell Spector wrote:
>> adric22@yahoo.com wrote:
>>>Also, besides that, what is the best way to get information over to a
>>>IIgs from a Windows XP machine?
>
> If I might pop in here for a sec.  :-)
>
> I have found that the best way to transfer files to/from an Apple computer 
> to a windows box is to put a third system in the middle.  A Macintosh. 
> The Mac can (at least my system can) use Appletalk to talk to the Apple 
> computer and the Mac can talk via the internet/router with the IBM.  In 
> this way all files are automatically translated properly between the Mac 
> and Apple (text files that is) and the Mac and IBM as well.  Only on the 
> very early Apples do you have to have an Appletalk card.  There used to be 
> an Appletalk card for the IBM PCs as well but I haven't heard about those 
> in a very long time.

I have a Farallon PhoneNET PC III. It's a neat little card, but there's just 
not much software that uses it. PCMacLAN has some 16-bit ODI drivers that 
work with Windows 9x but carries a $100 price tag. I tried to get the card 
working using Linux, but that was one nightmare after another.

-Greg

>
> Using Appletalk is slow.  Appletalk went at something like 9600 baud.  The 
> thing about it is that the files are good once they have been transferred 
> and you really do not have to sit there and monitor it all day long.  (Or 
> all night long.)  Once the transfers are complete you can then create a CD 
> or use your internet connection to complete the transfer.  I'm going to be 
> using a CD but only because I've collected about 5,000 diskettes over the 
> years.  I've done about 1,000 of them and, with duplicates, I've managed 
> to reduce that down to around 500 programs and data files.  Still, the 
> //gs just sits there and slowly but surely transfers everything.  I just 
> hope my arms are up to doing another 4,000 diskettes!  :-P
>
> The nice thing is - this kind of a set-up works both ways.  To and from a 
> //gs. So have fun!  :-)