Apple // Emulator Disk Images
gordt at gordtulloch.com
gordt at gordtulloch.com
Mon Apr 25 16:36:21 CDT 2005
I would assume you need to format the floppies with the appropriate format
(DOS or ProDOS depending on what you're writing) - I need to do so on my
IIGS with DSK2FILE so I presume you'd need to do so on the Mac...
Regards,
Gord
cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org wrote on 04/25/2005 05:14:06 PM:
> > Sounds like you did everything right, but it should've have taken
10-15
> > minutes to write each floppy. It should've only taken a minute for
each.
> > Are you using double density floppies? Do not use high density...it
will
> > only give you problems.
>
> I'd thought that I was doing it right. I'm using brand new DS DD
floppies,
> I'm not sure how old, but less than 20 years old, and they've been
stored
> under good conditions thier entire life). I thought that was an insane
> amount of time to take. The drive works for reading, I wonder if it has
> issues with writting.
>
> I just had a thought, should I have formated the floppy prior to trying
to
> write the disk image to it? I wouldn't think DSK2FILE would care.
>
> Zane
>
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