I was hoping to just get the Mac to write a proper disk (or single file in this case) despite the extra couple steps involved. honestly, I was hoping to avoid that route-though I'm sure it becomes a much more straight forward process once you get it working.
GS SHRINKIT SOFTWARE
The ADTPro route requires special cabling, doesn't it? And probably specific settings in terminal software (that's sure to throw me for a loop as I'm network-stupid). I copy the files to a temporary folder on the Mac, open them up in ProTYPE and then copy the files back to a ProDOS formatted disk (either created on the Mac or the GS doesn't seem to make any difference). I transfer the files to Mac via PC formatted 3.5" disk or a CD-R (luckily I have an external CD-ROM for the Mac). Yes, I have a PC-this is what I use to download the image files as my Mac has no internet connection. DSK etc.) Has anybody here ever used ProDOSifier, or know of some other program that can aid me in my task? Any suggestions/info would be greatly appreciated!-I've wasted days trying to figure this out on my own! I think I read somewhere that someone had a similar problem with ProTYPE and suggested an alternative program-I think it's called "ProDOSifier".(?) I think with this program, you have to manually specifiy the type (in which case I'd need to find myself a chart of file types for. I don't know why ProTYPE would work for an. SEA file on the GS-from what I've read, it seems I might need a special GUI for this (one that I cannot use anyway as I have no hard drive for the GS)-can anybody confirm this for me?
GS SHRINKIT HOW TO
Unfortunately I have no idea how to execute an. I can't remember what type it came up as, but it was something other than $00 (and as a test, I tried transferring GSHK.SEA WITHOUT using ProTYPE and sure enough it came up as $00-so obviously using ProTYPE in this case did something to the file).
GS SHRINKIT ARCHIVE
The weird thing is that ProTYPE did seem to work for one other file I downloaded-it was a self-extracting archive of GS-ShrinkIt (GSHK.SEA).
GS SHRINKIT .EXE
EXE files are still coming up as type $00. I've read somewhere that other people had this problem and used a Mac program called "ProTYPE" to write the files properly-I used this program to no avail the. EXE for both ShrinkIt and Binscii, but when I write it to a ProDOS 3.5" disk, the file attributes get changed to $00 and I get a message something along the lines of "File type mismatch" when trying to execute it from BASIC. Here lies the problem-I need to get a self-extracting version of at least one of these programs to the GS. So I think the first step will be to get ShrinkIt and Binscii over to the GS, then I can unshrink DSK2FILE and ASIMOV (the software that deals with. Most of the software/games I'd be downloading will be in ShrinkIt, Binscii or. Luckily I have the perfect era Mac for this-an old LCIII.
This is turning out to be much more difficult than I'd anticipated! I've looked over many forum discussions and web articles that illustrate various methods of accomplishing this with an old Mac. Now after all this time, I'd like to get the most out of it by getting some software I've downloaded over to it.
I got it in high school and it was indeed ancient even back then. Greetings! I'm new to this forum, but am sort of an "oldtime" Apple IIgs user having had one for about 15 years.
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