Not OT: Classic apps and the Intel Mac

[Scott Stevens]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:58:34 -0600
Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:

> Scott Stevens wrote:
> > image, I used the Winimage program on my Windows2000 machine to
> 
> When you get 400K and 800K disks to read, let me know ;-)

I read 800K disks onto my Powerbook 165c, using Shrinkwrap.  The
image file fits on a HD floppy with a copy of the Shrinkwrap
program, then I read the HD floppy with Winimage to archive it
and to move it over to BasiliskII as the HD image.  No way to
directly read the 800K image except on a Mac.  Then you mount the
HD image, and mount the 800K image on it using Shrinkwrap.

There is no barrier whatsoever to getting the data and programs
from 800K disks to the emulator, so long as you have a real Mac
somewhere.  And no problem with 400K disks as long as you have a
drive on a real Mac that will read them and also write at least
800K disks.  There's also no barrier to archiving them onto big
backup volumes as long as you have Shrinkwrap.

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