There are a number of things that need to be pointed out in regards to this thread: 1. Mr. Ryskalczyk is correct about 720K floppies not being able to read in Mac 800K drives. The actual media (DS/DD diskette) can be formatted to 800K or 720K. 2. Despite not being able to read 800K Mac floppies, many USB floppy drives will read 720K DOS disks. 3. No matter what comes about with your experiences with floppy disks, downloading programs which you have not purchased legally is against the law. If you are going to run commercial products on your computer, you need to purchase genuine copies. Shareware, freeware, and public domain software can be downloaded for free and can be used legally without having to pay (with the exception of shareware, which requires a fee to use past a certain time interval). There have also been a few developers who have given their programs away free of charge directly from their sites (Cliff Johnson and Steve Capps are examples) but the programs from major developers (i.e. Microsoft, Claris, Broderbund, MECC, Adobe) have not been released like this. Even if the company no longer exists the assets are still owned by someone else (such as Riverdeep, who I believe has all the old Broderbund stuff).
--- On Tue, 7/21/09, David Ryskalczyk <[email protected]> wrote: From: David Ryskalczyk <[email protected]> Subject: Re: vintage Mac software To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 2:43 PM A Mac with an 800K drive certainly can't read 720K PC floppies. Though physically, 720K floppies can be reformatted as 800K Mac floppies (that will only work in Macs unless you have an expensive floppy card, like the Catweasel). --Dave On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Don Messerli<[email protected]> wrote: > I've never heard of a Mac with an 800K drive being able to read 720K PC > floppies. > > Don > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM, hamdi fouzai <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> whoh! >> So it could be possible to use a 720k with my mac plus >> >> I will try if it works >> thank you for this tipps! >> >> > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:34:45 +0100 >> > From: [email protected] >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: vintage Mac software >> > >> > >> > hamdi fouzai wrote: >> > > Do you have a pc or a mac? >> > > (the computer with you download the games) >> > > >> > > If it's a Pc I think it's impossible, I try it with Basilik2 >> > > Hfvexplorer transmac....But I don't work it.... >> > > >> > Depends. It is possible. >> > >> > If your mac has PC Exchange and a 1.44MB drive, you can copy files onto >> > a PC formatted floppy on your PC. >> > If it doesn't have PC Exchange, use HFV Explorer, or in Basilisk 2, copy >> > the files onto a mac 1.44 MB disk from the PC (by mounting C:, or >> > wherever the files are in Basilisk). >> > >> > If you only have an 800k drive, I think this can read 720k PC >> > floppies... I could be wrong, and good luck finding them! >> > >> > If you have a mac laptop with PCMCIA, the best method is to use a >> > CompactFlash card with a PCMCIA->CompactFlash reader on the mac side and >> > a USB->CompactFlash reader on the PC side. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Josh >> > > >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:09:08 +0000 >> > > From: [email protected] >> > > To: [email protected] >> > > Subject: Re: vintage Mac software >> > > >> > > All, >> > > >> > > Has anyone ever downloaded games, etc. from Macintoshgarden.org???? >> > > What is the procedure to getting the desired program from this website >> > > to my vintage Mac?? >> > > Thank you! >> > > Jeff >> > > ----- Original Message ----- >> > > From: "Istarian" <[email protected]> >> > > To: "Vintage Macs" <[email protected]> >> > > Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2009 9:12:17 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >> > > Subject: Re: vintage Mac software >> > > >> > > >> > > Some of the Zork games mentioned here (Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III) >> > > are available for download at >> > > http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html >> > > , yes even for macs (.hqx files). >> > > >> > > On Jun 30, 7:04 am, [email protected] wrote: >> > > > All, >> > > > >> > > > I have recently got into "classic" Macs again. I had the original >> > > 128K in 1985 and I remember some various games including some "text >> > > only" >> > > > >> > > > adventure type games.....So, my question is how do I find these >> > > games? and how do you get these on Mac disks? Can they still be bought >> > > some where? >> > > > >> > > > Thank you. >> > > > >> > > > Jeff >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
