MacDiskImage v1.0

Set of tools to read/write 1.44 Mb Mac Floppies on a PC and convert them to
diskimages which can be used on Macintosh emulators on DD-drive equipped
Amigas or real DD-drive equipped Macs.
 
Since most Amiga computers do not have HD floppiedrives as standard (except
for the A4000), we have a problem using Macintosh software which comes on
HD Disks.

We could use a Mac to convert 1.44 Hd disks to an image and store them on
720K disks, but we need a mac to do that. A lot of us (including me) don't
have access to a mac, but do have access to PC's. (There are a lot of them,
really... ;)

MacImg together with Gspoin and ConvImage (all included) will do the job as
fast as possible.

The image can be written in an Macbinary FAKE encoded Apple Diskcopy image.
It is not really a DiskCopy image, it is more a kind of a hack. You will
need MountImage (Freeware from Apple) AND DiskCopy (Freeware from Apple)
AND DiskDup+ 2.7 (Registered or unregistered, Shareware) to make it a 100%
image which can be mounted using MountImage. 

Detailed information is given in the Session.doc

I have successfully installed Symantec C++ 7.0 (6 disks) and several Mac
Format coverdisks, all without errors, on a ShapeShifter equipped Amiga.
 

The image can also be written in RAW format. In this way the file can be
mounted as a filedisk.

On the PC:

Macimg reads a Mac 1.44 Disk and writes it to a (splitted) file.
The fileparts are copied directly to disk. 

On the Amiga:
  
GSpoin will rebuild the imagefile from 720K floppies on the Mac side (Using
Mac:). ConvImage can convert the image between a raw and MacBinary encoded
format.

Needed tools summary:

PC:     - MacIMG.exe (included in this archive)

Amiga:  - GSpoin (included in this archive)
        - CrossDos (pc0: etc..) (included with Amiga OS 2.1+)
        - A Mac emulator with an amiga-side accessible partition or
         filedisk. For example Mac: when using ShapeShifter.

Mac:    - Unstuffit 3.51 or MacBinary (For decoding macbin)
        - Mountimage 1.2B1 (Mount the fileimage)
        - DiskDup+ 2.7 (Making a correct checksum of the Fake-image so 
        Apple DC can read it) )
        - Apple Diskcopy 4.2 (Making a 100% FileImage)
        (All NOT included in this archive)
        
        
        
Handy (not necessary) tools:
PC:     - Gspoin.exe
        - ConvIMG.exe
Amiga:  - ConvIMG
        (All included in this archive, see docs)
         


Have Fun and remember, there's more than just computers! : 

You may want have a look at this: http://www.linknet.it/Spirit.html
(Changed MY life!)

For any hints, tips or bugs or just anything you want to write:

Snailmail:

Robert Grob
Oranje Nassaulaan 6
4101 JT Culemborg
Holland

E-mail:

robertg@stack.urc.tue.nl
grob@prl.philips.nl     (Till end of august '96)
R.W.T.E.Grob@stud.tue.nl      (Till end of august '96)

Http: Soon, from May 1996 : http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~robertg

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-rw-r-----  6133/5305     1492    3013  49.5% -lh5- c414 Mar  6  1996 MacDiskImage/ReadMe.txt
-rw-r-----  6133/5305      584    1027  56.9% -lh5- af4a Mar  6  1996 MacDiskImage/ReadMeFirst.txt
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