Re: Apple IIgs w/o any disks

[graalguy@yahoo.com (Ian Gowen)]

"Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> wrote in message news:<vgn880tnsavufb@corp.supernews.com>...
> "Ian Gowen" <graalguy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> 6f7c443d.0307081819.28d7588f@posting.google.com">news:6f7c443d.0307081819.28d7588f@posting.google.com...
> > okay, so basically my problem is that i don't have any apple II disks
> > and i don't know how to format them.
> > When i start up, it gives me the "Check Startup Device" error... then
> > i hit "control/reset" and it goes to the BASIC prompt.
> > Is there a way to format the disks there?
> > On a side note, is there a way to create A2 disks from disk images on
> > a PC with the PC's drive?
> 
> You can't use a PC floppy to make disks for your IIgs.

Crap.

>  You can use a Mac
> with a SuperDrive floppy.  
don't have access to one.
>The new USB floppies won't work.  Download the
> GS/OS disk images from the Apple archives, and use DiskDup+ to make floppies
> from the images.  DiskDup+ is a shareware program you can find on the net.
> Search for Diskdup292.hqx.
> 
> If you don't have access to an older Mac with a SuperDrive floppy, you can
> get software onto your IIgs from your PC with a null-modem cable and a
> program called ADT.  Read over the faq:

Needs some kind of a serial card. :-P

> 
> http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs1START.html
> 
> Details on ADT are here:
> 
> http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2T1TCOM.html#003
> 
> Oh yeah, and the easy way is to get someone to send you the disks in the
> mail.  Try to get a comm program too, so you can do file transfers between
> your PC and the IIgs.

Who does that?


> Good luck, and have fun with that IIgs.

i'm trying...:)
But wouldn't it be possible to convert the a2 disk image to a standard
format floppy-disk image and write it using an app like rawrite? i
don't need to read the disks at all, just writing.
-Ian