Re: Creating II GS floppies on a new school Mac?

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <b3d40431.0402151316.1b0ea0e3@posting.google.com>,
 ewolff@mac.com (Eberhard Wolff) wrote:

> I would like to put some of the images that you can find on the
> internet on "real" floppies for use with my II gs. I have a new school
> Mac (i.e. a current iBook and a Quicksilver G4) and of course I could
> get my fingers on a PC. Now I thought it would be possible to take the
> images and put them on a floppy. I was close to buying an USB floppy
> drive for my mac. However, I learned that this is apparently not as
> easy.

It's harder than you think.  All of the USB floppy drives that I've run 
across are based on PC floppies and only do 720K and 1.4MB MFM encoded 
floppies.  They don't do the 800K GCR floppies used on the Apple II 3.5" 
drives.  Unless you have a 1.4MB drive and controller for your GS.  Then 
you can get things to work.

Greg B.

PS.  There have been USB floppy drives advertised as being 800K 
compatible, but I think those cases have just been a simple case of them 
looking at the normal capabilities of what a Mac floppy should do and 
assuming that it would work the same with the USB floppy.

PPS.  What the Apple II world really needs is a USB<->Smartport 
converter.  Then you could use normal Apple floppy drives.

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