![]() ![]() Note: Okay, technically, if your vintage mac only accepts 400/800k disks, then the answer is no. But let’s assume for a moment that you don’t have a bridge machine, is it still possible to create a vintage mac boot floppy? Yes! I could have easily done the whole process, from download to physical floppy, right there. This is where having a bridge machine, like the Power Macintosh 8600/200 I previously restored, comes in handy. Then you can use the Disk Copy program to write the extracted “Network Access.image” file to a real floppy. ![]() It’s provided as a disk image stored in a MacBinary-encoded self-extracting archive, so the first step is to download it onto a working classic mac and extract the disk image with Stuffit Expander. However by this time system CDs were becoming the norm, so the closest I could find was Apple’s System 7.5 Network Access Disk. While there are many methods for doing this, I decided that since I’m planning on installing 7.5.5, that I wanted a 7.5.5 boot floppy. So the actual first thing I need to do is to make a bootable floppy. It works perfectly fine with the SCSI2SD, however it doesn’t come preinstalled on a bootable floppy. The solution is to use the third-party disk formatter Lido 7.5.6. They don’t recognize the non-Apple drive by default, and even if you get a “patched” version which does, the resulting disk will have data corruption problems. However, I’ve found that those programs don’t work well with the SCSI2SD. The usual process is to boot from a floppy and use either the Apple HD SC Setup (for System 6) or Drive Setup (for System 7) program to format the drive. The first thing I want to do is format that 1.75 GB drive with an HFS filesystem. I’m using the aforementioned SCSI2SD to simulate a single 1.75 GB hard drive, on which I intend to install System 7.5.5. ![]() I’ve installed 64 MB of RAM along with a GGLABS MACSIMM ROM replacement. Now it’s time to get that disk formatted and a working system installed, but to do so I’ll need to create a boot floppy first.Īs a quick recap, at this point I have a Macintosh SE/30 with a working floppy drive. ![]() Makes an easy way to install MacOS or transfer over very large archives.In Part VIII of this series, I finished prepping a 2 GB SD card for the SCSI2SD that will serve as the primary disk for my vintage Macintosh SE/30. If it is something you do a lot, some Macs can support other options such as networked Apple file sharing, or SCSI Iomega Zip drives.Īctually, Basillisk II has a really neat feature where you can pull a SCSI hard drive from a Mac, and attach it to a PC with a SCSI card like an Adaptec AHA-2940U and then mount it directly within the emulator. So, unfortunately, the workflow for getting most Mac archives to a real Mac involves loading them up in an emulator, extracting them, and making disk images. Worse yet, archives that have been converted to ZIP/RAR/7z but automatically discarding resource forks, that renders most contents unusable. So instead of standard 400k, 800k, 1.44mb, or ISO images, you get all kinds of crazy compressed formats like SIT, SMI, HQX, BIN, or such. Of course, that is almost impossible today. A lot of the stuff that was archived as "warez", back when the stuff was new, was intended that Mac users would download everything directly to their machines. It's a common problem for old Macintosh archives. ![]()
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