Oh yeah, forgot to mention.... To write HFS floppies with an OS higher than 10.5, you'll need to install MacFuse 2.1.7. (google it) Its a file-system extension 'plug in' for Mac OS/X. Works like a charm for formatting and writing HFS floppies. For 'forcing' 800k floppies, I've had some luck using 1.44mb floppies and using Unix dd command to write the 800k image to a 1.44mb floppy. I cover the second 'hole' on the 1.44 floppy before putting it in the old Mac and effectively trick the vintage Mac into thinking it's an 800k floppy.
On Sep 3, 11:44 pm, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > --- On Sat, 9/3/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I just got a vintage Mac SE, and > > would like to copy some software onto > > it from FTP site. How do I go about taking something from a > > modern > > computer and putting it on an older one? Most of the > > tutorials just > > mention changing the Operating System and not how to > > transfer games > > specifically programmed for these vintage computers. > > If it's an SE FD/HD (Floppy Drive High Density), then plug a USB floppy drive > into your newer Mac, pop in a 1.44M Mac formatted disk and copy the files to > the disk then "sneakernet" the disk to the SE. However, the newest OS X > version that can *write* to HFS disks is 10.5.x. > > If the SE only has an 800K drive then it gets more complicated. You'll need > an older Mac - older than the iMac - running OS 9 or earlier, to be an > intermediary. > > The reason why is because only internal floppy drives (or externals on the > models with external drive ports) can read and write the 400K and 800K disks. > OS X on a beige G3 won't work for this because there's no support for those > floppy drives, except for a driver for 10.1 that was abandoned before being > fully finished, and it only supported 1.44M disks. > > You'll still need the newer Mac for downloading because there's no up to date > web browser for "classic" Mac OS and ye olde beige Apples are all painfully > slow on the internet. > > You can skip the floppy transfers if you get a SCSI to Ethernet adapter, but > for easy direct networking the new Mac has to have 10.5.x or older because > there's no AppleTalk or AFP support in 10.6 and newer. You can setup a local > FTP or web server on the newer Mac then download files from that to the old > Mac or to the "MiddleMac" with the 1.44M floppy drive. > > P.S. The newest Mac you can use with low density Mac floppies is the first > generation Bondi iMac, but you have to solder a connector into the holes in > the mainboard then run a cable out somewhere to an old Mac floppy drive. Put > Mac OS 8.6 on it and you're ready to go. (OS 9 is not a good choice for > working with low density Mac floppies.) -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of 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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
