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

["M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

On 2/15/04 4:16 PM, in article
b3d40431.0402151316.1b0ea0e3@posting.google.com, "Eberhard Wolff"
<ewolff@mac.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 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. Even the old Diskcopy appears to have problems and you are
> supposed to use DiscDup+. After some searching I found that program.
> But it is shareware and hard to register (i.e. you have to send money
> - I would rather prefer not to do that as I am located in Germany).
> And still I can not be sure that this will help. Bernie is also no
> rescue in this case as it only supports build-in disk drives on the
> Mac.
> 
> Before my recent search I put some images on floppies on an old
> Macintosh SE. But this was using Diskcopy and some disks just didn't
> work. This problem is also described in the FAQ.

Unfortunately the USB floppy drives available for the iMac don't work with
Apple II disks.  As I understand it, you need a  PowerMac or earlier with a
3.5" drive to make 3.5" floppies for your IIgs using a Mac.

Of course, you can avoid dealing with floppies by storing the files on the
hard drive of your iMac and reading them across an AppleTalk network.  I
connect my IIgs to an iMac using a localtalk-to-ethernet bridge; it works
fine and the speed is comparable to floppy anyway.

- Mike