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

[warnken@mother.com (Sandra Warnken)]

ewolff@mac.com (Eberhard Wolff) wrote in message news:<b3d40431.0402151316.1b0ea0e3@posting.google.com>...
> 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
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> 
> Eberhard

The easiest thing to do is get internet software and go online with
your GS and directly download jpgs and gifs.  You need a reader which
is also available for download.  The trick is getting the internet
software.

Another way, you would need a SCSI card and a SCSI IOMEGA ZIP on the
GS and USB IOMEGA ZIP for the PC and Peter Watson's MUG!.  I find it
much easier to transfer pictures from a pc than my ibook.

Sandy