jefframsey
Well-known member
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?
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?