PC to GS file delimma..HELP :P

[immortalsoule]

Okay, here's my status:

Apple IIGs "Woz" with 5.25 & 3.50 drives.

PC Windows ME (fully blown)

PC Windows XP (no floppy)

Mac Performa 550 (MacOS 7.5)

I've got null-modem access but everything i transfer comes across as a "document" besides a few chosen files. Don't ask me why, i have no clue why it chooses.

I've got claris works and xmodem protocol.

I'm sure there is software out there but i need the quick and dirty of how it can be done.

Also, can i copy Apple II games on 5.25 to a GS on a 3.5? (Stability reasons).

I know this has probably been brought up before but every time it has, i'm sure the conditions were different so i apologize in advance.

 

[magnusfalkirk]

Okay, here's my status:
Apple IIGs "Woz" with 5.25 & 3.50 drives.

PC Windows ME (fully blown)

PC Windows XP (no floppy)

Mac Performa 550 (MacOS 7.5)

I've got null-modem access but everything i transfer comes across as a "document" besides a few chosen files. Don't ask me why, i have no clue why it chooses.

I've got claris works and xmodem protocol.

I'm sure there is software out there but i need the quick and dirty of how it can be done.

Also, can i copy Apple II games on 5.25 to a GS on a 3.5? (Stability reasons).

I know this has probably been brought up before but every time it has, i'm sure the conditions were different so i apologize in advance.

Since you already have the cables what you need is this software: http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/ ADTPro will let you easily transfer disk images between your Mac/PC and the GS.

Is it disk images of 5.25 games you want to put on 3.5 disks? Or are you wanting to take 5.25 disks that you currently have and transfer them to 3.5? There are several disk images at the Asimov Archive of old DOS 3.3 games on 3.5disk images.

Hope this helps, if I didn't help with your question about 5.25 to 3.5 I'm sure somebody else will.

Magnus

 

[Unknown_K]

With a HD installed in the GS you can run GS OS 6 and then connect the IIgs to the Performa via the printer port and just localtalk to it and transfer files easily. You need atleast 1.25MB (256K built in and a full 1MB RAM card). GS OS 6 also supports making HFS partitions on the local HD and has drivers for the early Mac ROM'd CDROM drives.

 

[immortalsoule]

Since you already have the cables what you need is this software: http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/ ADTPro will let you easily transfer disk images between your Mac/PC and the GS.

Is it disk images of 5.25 games you want to put on 3.5 disks? Or are you wanting to take 5.25 disks that you currently have and transfer them to 3.5? There are several disk images at the Asimov Archive of old DOS 3.3 games on 3.5disk images.

Hope this helps, if I didn't help with your question about 5.25 to 3.5 I'm sure somebody else will.

Magnus

Okay, i've been wanting to ask about this. It doesn't seem likely but i can just run ADTPro on the PC end with NO software on the other end and it will just "send" the copy of ADTPro (for the GS) over to it like magic?

I've got NO software on the Apple IIGS end to receive it.

As for the games, I've got a ton on old Apple II 5.25s. I was hoping to copy them to 3.5s (for stability reasons) with the IIGS and play them off 3.5s.

 

[immortalsoule]

With a HD installed in the GS you can run GS OS 6 and then connect the IIgs to the Performa via the printer port and just localtalk to it and transfer files easily. You need atleast 1.25MB (256K built in and a full 1MB RAM card). GS OS 6 also supports making HFS partitions on the local HD and has drivers for the early Mac ROM'd CDROM drives.

Well, there a few problems there.

1) I've got no GS hard drive. I have the cables and drive (on the mac) but i don't think my GS has the card to operate the hard drive (if one is needed).

2) I don't have GSOS 6, just a bunch of games from my old Apple II.

See, here's what i had "planned" to do:

Send Zterm over to the Mac via Hyperterm (PC) and ClarisWorks (Mac) BUT the Mac doesn't recognize the files as ANYTHING but just blank file types or documents (why, i don't know).

I was planning to format some 3.5 disks (with the Mac) and put GSOS onto them to sorta get "started" but i can't get Zterm going because of the mac problem (using OS7.5).

Plus i've got something called "image convert" and i know there are other programs out there (for the mac) to work but i haven't found them.

What would be cool would be a Mac program that would write GS "images" to diskette so i could just load them straight into the GS via the 3.5 drive.

Whew...

I've went to a lot of other forums and got a lot of "theories" or answers that only work "under certain conditions" and i've been told this is the best forum to get answers.

I hope i was told right. So far, you guys have given better answers than anyone else but i'm still sorta stuck until i can figure out why the Mac doesn't recognize the files i send it from the PC. And GOD do i hate using Xmodem protocol....ick.

 

[magnusfalkirk]

Okay, i've been wanting to ask about this. It doesn't seem likely but i can just run ADTPro on the PC end with NO software on the other end and it will just "send" the copy of ADTPro (for the GS) over to it like magic?

I've got NO software on the Apple IIGS end to receive it.

As for the games, I've got a ton on old Apple II 5.25s. I was hoping to copy them to 3.5s (for stability reasons) with the IIGS and play them off 3.5s.

Actually ADTPro will help you transfer the Apple II client from the PC to the GS. In fact if you don't have a PRODOS disk ADTPro will bootstrap the GS from bare metal to a useable copy of the Apple II client. You can read the details of how to do it on the ADTPro page.

I use it all the time to transfer disk images from my Mac to my GS.

Magnus

 

[II2II]

Suggestion: use ADT Pro to get MMGR (a.k.a. Modem MGR) to the Apple IIgs. This is a two step process: obtaining and bootstrapping ADT, then obtaining and transferring the MMGR disk image to the IIgs.

This will give you two protocols for file transfer: ADT Pro for disk images (very convenient) and ZModem for individual files. Just be warned, MMGR is a pain to use but it is the only reliable ZModem implementation that I've found.

I've never tried this, since I'm from the ADT days rather than the ADT Pro era, but you may be able to grab GS/OS 6.0.1 from Syndicomm's FTP site as 2IMG files and use ADT Pro to transfer the system software directly to 3.5" floppies on your Apple IIgs.

As for converting software from 5.25" floppies to 3.5" floppies:

If it is a ProDOS program, just try copying the files to the floppy.

If it is a DOS 3.3 program, there are versions of DOS 3.3 that allow you to place several 5.25" diskettes on one 3.5" diskette. You may want to check out the comp.sys.apple2 FAQ for information. Also, to my knowledge, comp.sys.apple2 is where the heart of the Apple II technical community hangs out.

 

[II2II]

With a HD installed in the GS you can run GS OS 6 and then connect the IIgs to the Performa via the printer port and just localtalk to it and transfer files easily. You need atleast 1.25MB (256K built in and a full 1MB RAM card). GS OS 6 also supports making HFS partitions on the local HD and has drivers for the early Mac ROM'd CDROM drives.

Don't do this. You'll end up with resource fork problems. (Incidentally, you can do it without the hard drive and I am fairly certain that you can use generic CD-ROM drives with GS/OS.)

 

[immortalsoule]

With a HD installed in the GS you can run GS OS 6 and then connect the IIgs to the Performa via the printer port and just localtalk to it and transfer files easily. You need atleast 1.25MB (256K built in and a full 1MB RAM card). GS OS 6 also supports making HFS partitions on the local HD and has drivers for the early Mac ROM'd CDROM drives.

Don't do this. You'll end up with resource fork problems. (Incidentally, you can do it without the hard drive and I am fairly certain that you can use generic CD-ROM drives with GS/OS.)

Again, i have to add that i have a generic Woz machine and i was led to believe (before) that it took a special card to make things like hard drives and CD-Roms happen on a IIGS.

 

[david__schmidt]

Again, i have to add that i have a generic Woz machine and i was led to believe (before) that it took a special card to make things like hard drives and CD-Roms happen on a IIGS.

I don't know about that, but you can't run GSOS on a ROM 00 machine... you need at least a ROM 01.

 

[immortalsoule]

Again, i have to add that i have a generic Woz machine and i was led to believe (before) that it took a special card to make things like hard drives and CD-Roms happen on a IIGS.

I don't know about that, but you can't run GSOS on a ROM 00 machine... you need at least a ROM 01.

Mine is 01 i believe. I've actually got 2 GS machines, a standard and a Woz.

 

[II2II]

My AppleTalk comment was mostly directed towards Unknown_K, and I was simply pointing out that you do NOT need a hard drive to use it. Please read the posts. It may help you figure out what you're doing.

Any Apple IIgs will need a "special" card if you want to add a hard drive. There are several such cards out there, they will make you're life more pleasurable if you want to use IIgs software, but they ar eby no means necessary.

I'm not that familiar with ROM 0 IIgs's, but a stock Woz will be a ROM 0. From what I have been told, most of those have been upgraded to ROM 1 machines anyway. There is no such thing as a "standard" IIgs. There are ROM 1 and ROM 3 IIgs's (as well as ROM 0). If you want help, it sometimes helps if you know what you have, and if you have a RAM card, 3.5" floppies, and so forth.

 

[immortalsoule]

My AppleTalk comment was mostly directed towards Unknown_K, and I was simply pointing out that you do NOT need a hard drive to use it. Please read the posts. It may help you figure out what you're doing.
Any Apple IIgs will need a "special" card if you want to add a hard drive. There are several such cards out there, they will make you're life more pleasurable if you want to use IIgs software, but they ar eby no means necessary.

I'm not that familiar with ROM 0 IIgs's, but a stock Woz will be a ROM 0. From what I have been told, most of those have been upgraded to ROM 1 machines anyway. There is no such thing as a "standard" IIgs. There are ROM 1 and ROM 3 IIgs's (as well as ROM 0). If you want help, it sometimes helps if you know what you have, and if you have a RAM card, 3.5" floppies, and so forth.

Regardless of certain things being said, the problem was solved back when ADTPRo was mentioned. There's no longer a need to keep posting on this subject.

Thanks.

 

[II2II]

I'll post when I damn well like. And it is very poor manners to piss on the people who try to help you.

 

[immortalsoule]

I'll post when I damn well like. And it is very poor manners to piss on the people who try to help you.

To everyone else, i apologize for this person. He's pissed off over a personal message i sent him and determined to get the last word in no matter how childish it might be.

Again, the problem is solved.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Sorry, immortal, but in the thread, it does look like you are the one who was being rather insulting and childish.

And if you sent him something via PM that pissed him off, then likely your PM was rather childish, as well.

This is a discussion board. Just because your question was answered, doesn't mean there isn't more discussion on the topic possible. There may no longer be a need to continue, people might still want to continue. If you don't want to continue, then stop reading this thread.

 

[Unknown_K]

It is better to beat a thread to death so that everything anybody would need is mentioned (and saved in Googles cache) then to have the same topic come up again and again with only partial information.

Immortalsoule: This forum was not setup for just you. Threads are not owned by the people who start them, so don't dictate when they are over. Pissing off long time forum members who are just trying to help you is not a good thing to do here or anywhere else.

 

[immortalsoule]

It is better to beat a thread to death so that everything anybody would need is mentioned (and saved in Googles cache) then to have the same topic come up again and again with only partial information.
Immortalsoule: This forum was not setup for just you. Threads are not owned by the people who start them, so don't dictate when they are over. Pissing off long time forum members who are just trying to help you is not a good thing to do here or anywhere else.

I say thanks to Magnus. He was cool, he answered it, and didn't have be a big shot or an elitest over it. The rest of you, grow he hell up and stop pretending you're some elder Apple authority or you know the "depths" of forums. I was doing this stuff 20 years ago, probably before most of you knew what a forum was.

By the way, you last two who posted, it's all two obvious you're either the same guy or two dudes who worked this little "gang-up" tactic out. Your timing completely gave you away.

Get over yourselves.

 

[~tl]

Right, that's enough.

immortalsoule, the only person who is out of line in this thread is you. I really don't see why you're getting all worked up about people continuing to post in this thread. It's great that your question was answered a while back, but that does not mean that this thread is automatically closed. People are still fully entitled to continue adding information and advice, even if you don't want to take it into account.

I know you're new here, so I'll cut you a bit of slack. However, acting like this (i.e. insulting other members of the forum) is a really good way to get yourself banned.