Re: Generating macintosh disks
> On 24 Jul 2017, at 07:30, Mattis Lind via cctalk > wrote: > > måndag 24 juli 2017 skrev Alexandre Souza via cctalk > : > >> Hi there! >> >> Spent all saturday and sunday trying to boot a Mac Plus. Unfortunately I >> hadn't any 800K boot disks nor a way to generate them. >> >> I solved the problem using a Classic booting 7.0.1, writting a 7.0.1 1.4MB >> disk on PC using winimage, loading this disk on the mac classic, copying >> the contents of disk onto a zip disk and booting the mac plus with the zip. >> >> My questions: >> - Is there a Macintosh (in)PC emulator which can I read/write this zip >> disc? > > - Is there an easy way to connect the mac plus to a pc and transfer files? > > > I am not sure that ther are easy ways around this. When I had this problem > I used AppleTalk. I used a OrangePi as a netatalk server and a bridge > between LocalTalk and EtherTalk. It requires that you installed LocalTalk > SW on your MAC of course. I’ve had several goes at this particularly when I was making 400k disks for my first Lisa. Back then it was: download .sit from apple’s website (or later on use images from David T. Craig’s CDs) copy to floppy then sneakernet to an LCII that had PCExchange installed Appletalk over to a IIci (or IIcx, can’t remember) to write 400k disks > I have written about it here. > http://www.datormuseum.se/computers/apple/macintosh-plus > > Another solution (which I haven't tried) is to use BMOW disk emulator. > https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/ I’d love one of those but can’t afford it for the little use it’ll get, though having said that I’ve recently spent the same amount on some SDcard adapters for my exhibition C64, BBC Model B and ZXSpectrum :) Cheers — Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs - Celebrating Computing History from 1972 onwards
Re: Generating macintosh disks
måndag 24 juli 2017 skrev Alexandre Souza via cctalk : > Hi there! > > Spent all saturday and sunday trying to boot a Mac Plus. Unfortunately I > hadn't any 800K boot disks nor a way to generate them. > > I solved the problem using a Classic booting 7.0.1, writting a 7.0.1 1.4MB > disk on PC using winimage, loading this disk on the mac classic, copying > the contents of disk onto a zip disk and booting the mac plus with the zip. > > My questions: > - Is there a Macintosh (in)PC emulator which can I read/write this zip > disc? - Is there an easy way to connect the mac plus to a pc and transfer files? I am not sure that ther are easy ways around this. When I had this problem I used AppleTalk. I used a OrangePi as a netatalk server and a bridge between LocalTalk and EtherTalk. It requires that you installed LocalTalk SW on your MAC of course. I have written about it here. http://www.datormuseum.se/computers/apple/macintosh-plus Another solution (which I haven't tried) is to use BMOW disk emulator. https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/ - How do I generate a 400K disk for a Mac 128K? > Thanks a lot > Alexandre >
Generating macintosh disks
Hi there! Spent all saturday and sunday trying to boot a Mac Plus. Unfortunately I hadn't any 800K boot disks nor a way to generate them. I solved the problem using a Classic booting 7.0.1, writting a 7.0.1 1.4MB disk on PC using winimage, loading this disk on the mac classic, copying the contents of disk onto a zip disk and booting the mac plus with the zip. My questions: - Is there a Macintosh (in)PC emulator which can I read/write this zip disc? - Is there an easy way to connect the mac plus to a pc and transfer files? - How do I generate a 400K disk for a Mac 128K? Thanks a lot Alexandre
