17 Aug
1998
17 Aug
'98
1:09 a.m.
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
Oh, sheesh! I'm the source. I'm not afraid
to let everyone know that I
have the Apple /// images available to anyone who wants them.
Glad to hear it Sam! Just didn't know if the cat was supposed to be kept
in the bag. :)
[re: ShrinkIt]
The disk format is the same for DOS 3.3 and SOS and
even ProDOS and Apple
Pascal. Its the filesystem that differs. You can read the data off of a
disk with one OS from any of the other OSes. So you can copy a SOS disk
with a DOS 3.3 copy program.
Yup, I'm aware of that. I actually just used my A1020 drive to make .dsk
images of my existing /// disks, as I also did with my Apple CP/M disks.
With the images I gave you, you simply need to
unshrink them using
ShrinkIt on your ][+. The disks will then be good to go on your Apple ///.
Let me know if you're still having problems and I'll work you through it.
I'm just lazy/short of time and don't feel like going through all of the
stages. The version of ShrinkIt I was able to find seemed to only want to
run on ProDOS, and that's where the major hassle lies.
Seeing as I had been planning on attempting to write Apple disks with my
Amiga 1020 drive, I thought it would be cool if I could write the ShrinkIt
files directly or to a .dsk image on my Amiga as well. If I understood
the ShrinkIt archive format, it might take less time to write a
ShrinkIt->.dsk converter than it'd take to do everything through ProDOS.
And considering my last experience with ProDOS, it'd be less prone to
error. :)
One of the major bottlenecks is my Hayes Micromodem IIe, which is
currently my only means of getting data to the ][+.
I'll get it done eventually, Sam, I just don't feel like facing ProDOS
again. :)
Sam Alternate
e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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