#Floppy disk emulator apple ii mac os#
If you only have high density disks, you can try applying sticky tape to hole in the corner of the disk that isn’t the write protect notch, but your success with this method may vary.Ģ) Copy files to that disk on your Mac using any Mac OS version from System 7 to Mac OS 8.6 (MacOS 9 to 9.2.2 reportedly has bugs in handling ProDOS disks, so be wary) and eject the disk. You CANNOT use high density floppy disks for use between Macs and the IIGS concurrently (you can, however, format a HD disk for the IIGS exclusively). If you've got a Mac with a standard built in floppy drive nothing could be easier:ġ) Simply format a DOUBLE DENSITY disk for HFS or ProDOS.
#Floppy disk emulator apple ii archive#
These archives have since been removed in the new version of the archive for the following reasons: the extra bandwidth taken, the annoyance of double handling of file archives and there are now programs on the IIGS (‘ DiskMaker’ - $5 shareware and ‘ Asimov’ – Freeware) which can convert 2image archives back to 3.5” floppy disks.Ī.
zip is to Windows, or StuffIt to the Mac). ShrinkIt, on the other hand, is the 'native' archive and compression format of the Apple IIGS (as. In short, if you wish to emulate the Apple IIGS, you would download 2images for use with those emulators. 2images are the standard for disk images for IIGS emulators (a more widely known term are ROMs, although that term is incorrect in regards to the IIGS, as the platform never used ROM based game cartridges). Do you know where I could get the PC version of game ‘x?’Ī. I don't own a real IIGS and XGS or KEGS won't run game ‘x’ properly. Why doesn’t the archive include Karateka, Taipei, Airheart, Captain Goodnight, Wings of Fury, AutoDuel, Wasteland, Robot Odyssey, etc? My favourite program refuses to work in KEGS/XGS/Bernie ][ the Rescue/Sweet 16! I've tried different emulator settings, but it still won’t work! What causes ‘UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS’ to appear after trying to boot some programs How can I get data to and from my Apple IIGS to a PC? How can I get data to and from my Apple IIGS to a Mac? What is a 2image (.2mg)? What is a ShrinkIt (.SHK) archive? This Frequently Asked Questions section will hopefully answer all your common questions.