MacMan2000
Member
Hello everyone,
Forgive me if this was discussed at some point prior to now, but I cannot seem to find exactly what I am looking for despite my searches.
To be brief, I have a Quesse/Total Systems Gemini 020/030 accelerator card for my SE that I just purchased on eBay. I have read that it needs Gemstart 3.0 in order to function properly.* Thus, I downloaded the driver from this site, which was in a .sit configuration, unpacked it via The Unarchiver, transferred it to an IBM formatted 1.44 Mb floppy, and inserted it in my SE.** However, instead of being greeted with an executable program, I found a text document in its place. Indeed, my SE had identified it as something to be opened in SimpleText, which was most displeasing.
Tonight, after researching this issue extensively, I erased the IBM format, inserted the disk into my SE, and formatted it in HFS. I was hoping that I could now transfer the program while keeping the necessary resource fork for the driver, which apparently is left out when a disk is formatted in FAT. However, when I attempted to drag and drop the program to said floppy on my MacBook (it's ancient, Mid-2010, but has macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 installed), it doesn't allow for it to transfer, showing a "no" symbol next to the driver I am dragging. I should say that all of this occurred after trying to reformat the disk to HFS+ on the MacBook. It repeatedly failed and crashed the Disk Utility when I tried to attempt this.
I am at a loss. This is my first Compact Macintosh, and I'm not much of an Apple user in general, so I don't really know the ins, outs, and quirks of Apple software. I would appreciate any tips or information that could help me solve this issue.
Many thanks in advance,
Forrest
*My SE has System 7 installed.
**For note, my SE was upgraded at some point, and has a SuperDrive plus the necessary ROM. As such, it is able to read IBM formatted floppies.
Forgive me if this was discussed at some point prior to now, but I cannot seem to find exactly what I am looking for despite my searches.
To be brief, I have a Quesse/Total Systems Gemini 020/030 accelerator card for my SE that I just purchased on eBay. I have read that it needs Gemstart 3.0 in order to function properly.* Thus, I downloaded the driver from this site, which was in a .sit configuration, unpacked it via The Unarchiver, transferred it to an IBM formatted 1.44 Mb floppy, and inserted it in my SE.** However, instead of being greeted with an executable program, I found a text document in its place. Indeed, my SE had identified it as something to be opened in SimpleText, which was most displeasing.
Tonight, after researching this issue extensively, I erased the IBM format, inserted the disk into my SE, and formatted it in HFS. I was hoping that I could now transfer the program while keeping the necessary resource fork for the driver, which apparently is left out when a disk is formatted in FAT. However, when I attempted to drag and drop the program to said floppy on my MacBook (it's ancient, Mid-2010, but has macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 installed), it doesn't allow for it to transfer, showing a "no" symbol next to the driver I am dragging. I should say that all of this occurred after trying to reformat the disk to HFS+ on the MacBook. It repeatedly failed and crashed the Disk Utility when I tried to attempt this.
I am at a loss. This is my first Compact Macintosh, and I'm not much of an Apple user in general, so I don't really know the ins, outs, and quirks of Apple software. I would appreciate any tips or information that could help me solve this issue.
Many thanks in advance,
Forrest
*My SE has System 7 installed.
**For note, my SE was upgraded at some point, and has a SuperDrive plus the necessary ROM. As such, it is able to read IBM formatted floppies.