Re: Apple II's and networking

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@ihug.co.nz>]

In <20030726181232.05067.00000587@mb-m26.aol.com> JWolf6589 wrote:

> 1.  Can an Apple II connect to a PC Network, or a macintosh network?  
> I have a feeling that he would be only able to connect to pre OSX Macs.  
> Macs using TCP/ip as a network standard OS 9.x or higher over the 
> standard Appletalk (68K macs).

An Apple II can still connect to a Mac running OS X. However, the 
AppleTalk protocol is turned off for file sharing by default. To enable 
it: run NetInfo Manager in the Utilities folder, select config/
AppleFileServer, set use_appletalk to 1 and restart file sharing.

This lets the Apple II read files from the Mac fine. Writing files with 
a resource is broken though, because Apple reused one of the bytes that 
had been used for storing info about Apple II forked files.

> 2.  OSX does not support ProDOS, what is going to happen with Apple II
> emulation?

Nothing different. While being able to mount a disk image or floppy disk 
in the Finder is useful, there are plenty of ways around it. For 
instance, use a program like ADFS, or use Bernie in which you can drag 
files from the IIgs Finder running in a Bernie window to the Mac Finder, 
and vice versa. MS-DOS, Windows and UNIX don't support ProDOS either, 
but no one has problems running emulators in those operating systems.

-- 
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

Apple II - FutureCop:LAPD - iMac Game Wizard
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws/
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