Floppy emu dsk images to real floppys

[jefframsey]

Is there a guide somewhere on how to open all of these different game images? I'm talking about the images from macintoshgarden or myabandonware, etc. The 1.44mb img ones are easy, I just use WinImage. The ones that I am struggling with are the 800k and 400k .dsk files. If I open them in Windows with StuffIt 10 and then copy the contents to an hfs floppy with MacDisk, the .dsk files are either corrupted or made to be opened with some version of software that I don't have on my SE.

Right now, I am trying to install this game to my SE HD: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/wizardry-vi-bane-of-the-cosmic-forge

I can open it with StuffIt 10 on my windows PC, but my Mac cannot open it with StuffIt 3.6 on my SE running System 7.1. If I open with the PC and extract the files, they are too large for a floppy. If I transfer the .sit file with MacDisk to a floppy and then to the SE hard driv, StuffIt says it's not a valid StuffIt archive. I am assuming this is a versioning thing since it opens on StuffIt 10 for Windows.

On the Mac SE, I have StuffIt 3.6 lite, Disk Copy 1.4.2 and Disk Copy 6.3.3. I read somewhere that most of of the .dsk files were made to open with Disk Copy 1.4.2. So am I corrupting the files or is it something else?

My ultimate method of transfer here would be to use my MacBook Pro with a USB floppy drive, USB stick if I could get USB on the SE, or SD card. The windows machine is a large server that is big and noisy and in the way. But it has a floppy drive and WinImage and MacDisk on it.

I was thinking of buying a SCSI2SD, but that seems to be only an internal drive. I can see the benefits to running an SD card for a hard drive, as many as they are, but transferring files would not be one of them because you would have to open the case to do it.

Does anyone have a guide or any tips for me? Is this a software version thing? Or hardware? SCSI Zip drive? SCSI CD Rom? ID10T error? PEBKAC?

 

[BadGoldEagle]

What about the actual Floppy EMU™ by BMOW?

You can use it as an external hard drive, you can put .dsk files on it to emulate 400k, 800k, 1440k floppies etc.

Once plugged into the floppy port on your SE (in Floppy mode, not HD), duplicating the emulated floppies to physical disks is just a matter of dragging and dropping the Floppy EMU disk to the real disk on the Mac desktop. Boom done.

You could use Zip/Jaz drives but you will need two drives then: one usb and one scsi. Not that cheap in the long run.

Windows strips the data fork of any file it does not recognise (A LOT OF THEM THEN!!). And since the Mac relies on the data fork, well... it simply won't work after that.

If you don't want to buy anything right now and if you are okay with the idea that it will take considerably more time to do it with 1440k floppies, here's something that might work for you: 

In the olden days (before I got my floppy EMU), I used to run a Win 7 VM just for Mac transfers. I got around the Windows file corruption thing by using Compact Pro images. On sheep shaver (or basilisk) I made self extracting Compact Pro archives of what I wanted to transfer over to the old mac, you could transfer your 800k images files that way. Then, using TransMac, I copied over the Compact pro archive to a blank 1440k floppy. Then you have to edit the file type and creator data (Windows deletes them, so you have to put them back). If memory serves, type=PACT creator=CPCT.

After all of that, MacOS should be able to open them...

But you will have to install Stuffit using that method first, then Disk Copy and only then you can start transferring your stuff. That's a really painful way my friend.   But it works.

Edit: I see you already have DC6 and Stuffit on your SE, so the whole process just got faster.

Edit2: You could also follow that guide if you want to create the 1440k floppy from a modern mac. Haven't tried it myself but should work... http://lowendmac.com/2008/creating-classic-mac-boot-floppies-in-os-x/

You can create HFS disk images using this tool: http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8337

just put your 800k image or sit file on a folder, open "HFS disk Maker", select the folder with your stuff, select an output location (desktop works best), and boom, you get another floppy image.

"Now you decide which computer is more sophisticated" - from an old Mac ad. But SOOO true here.