Re: How to get a IIGS going without disks...

[Rob Greene <nospam-greener@charter.net>]

"Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com> wrote in
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> What model mac are you running? Does it have an internal floppy? I
> don't a usb floppy will write to DD disks. Which also brings up the
> question, are you using double density disks?

Two of them: Power Macintosh G3 and a PowerBook 3400c.  The PM G3 has a 
black drive door - not sure on the 3400c as it is entirely black.  :(

These are being formatted as 800K (and no option for the 1.4MB).

> Disk copy and the newer manual-inject drives used on later "old-world
> rom" macs (which if you are running OS 9.2.2 I'm sure you have) are
> usually unable to write bootable Apple II disks. The best bet is to
> try and find an old mac with an auto-inject drive (no black drive
> door). If this is impossible, I've heard people have had luck using a
> program called Disk Dup+ instead of Disk Copy to write Apple II
> floppies. 

I'll try Disk Dup+ (saw Bill G has it at 
http://garberstreet.netfirms.com/Downloads.html - thanks!).

There is also an "A2 to PC without SSC (joystick port)" program.  I'll 
see if that's doable.

Plus, I realized that since I do have a Mac and one of them has the mini 
connector for a laser printer, I can probably steal that cable to use as 
a serial cable - maybe I can download DOS (found that a while ago) and 
then get enough going to get MacADT to function.


Thanks for the pointers!!  I'll try this tonight.
-Rob