Re: Making HFS CDs from Windows PCs

["Steve Hartz" <SHARTZ@columbus.rr.com>]

Hey!  Ya got me interested by your post so I did a little messing around
with the CD thing myself!  It really turned out to be simpler than even you
suggested. (:(:
Using Adaptec CD Creator  4 (Create CD) on a Windows machine , one can move
any downloaded apple files from your Hard drive (C:) or Hard Drive folder ,
etc  into the cheque and then create an  ISO 9660 CD by using a little
tweeking of the program.  CD Creator WILL create ISO 9660 CD's which are
readily readable with the patched (fixed) HFS.FST on a IIgs!

Do the following:
1) Just run the program as usual,
2) choose the files or folder you wish to move (burn) to the CD as usual
3) with a blank CD in the CDRW drive, go to the lower left window of the
program, click on the CD name (usually something like "030323_1231". and it
highlights.
4) click on 'Properties" at the top of the window
5) This brings up a window entitled "CD Layout Properties"
6) In the volume label area, change the name of your upcoming CD to an
appropriate Prodos name :
ex. AppleIICD
7) In the file system slot, change from Joliet to ISO9660.
8) Burn the CD as usual!
It really IS that simple.
Steve Hartz
SHartz40@yahoo.com


"vector" <abuse@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I thought it would be nice to make for my IIgs HFS CDs of files I
> downloaded from Asimov and Ground, but I don't have a Mac.  This is
> usually a big problem.  Not today!  I had an idea about what to do, and
> it seems to work!
>
> First, use HFV Explorer to make a 640 MB HFS-formatted disk image, then
> populate the file with whatever you'd like burned to CD.  Next, break out
> Nero.  Select the File menu, then the item "Burn Image". Ask for
> displaying all files (*.*) since Nero expects files with the NRG suffix,
> locate your image file and load it. Answer OK to the Foreign Image File
> prompt (if Nero doesn't recognize a true ISO image).  You then have to
> specify the parameters of the ISO file (this holds true for all HFS
> images): Type of image: Data Mode 1. Block size: 2048. File precursor and
> image trailer: 0 length. No Scrambled and no Swapped.  If the program
> complains that there are errors in the image file, click on the button
> "Ignore" and launch the burning.
>
> Voila!  HFS CDs made with Windows!  I tested the results on my IIgs, and
> it worked just great.  Of course, this method is virtually guaranteed to
> also work with HFV files made or modified under Basilisk II, though I
> didn't test that.
>
> vector