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

["Stephen Hartz" <SHartz@columbus.rr.com>]

By far the easiest way I have found to move files from Mac to IIgs is via
the Zip drives. An HFS formatted Zip cartridge can be used on the Mac to
'carry' images to the iuigs.  From a Zip drive on the GS, just use the
program Asimov to change to files back to 3.5 floppies (if you need 3.5"
floppies).  Otherwise, just load the files onto your GS hard drive...If you
need to go from PC to mac to IIGs, a MSDOS formatted Zip does a great job...


"Eberhard Wolff" <ewolff@mac.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> So what shoudl I do? On my IIc I use ADT and that is quite cool. Any
> comparable solution for IIgs images?
>
> Thanks for any responses,
>
> Eberhard