So it would be helpful for people who have gotten the updatealready to try out Mini vMac (both 3.0.4 and 3.1.2) and let me know ifthere are problems or if it works fine. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. If there are any reports of problems,I will go ahead and buy the update (as happened for OS X 10.5). I don't generally move to a new OS X releaseuntil 10.x.4 or later. Not too surprisingly, I'm not really an earlyadopter type. Assume you are gearing up forcompatibility checks. In this case you should first uncompressit on a modern Macintosh, and then transfer the uncompressed files intoa disk image, as described in the Disk Image page." (Oralternatively, use a different emulator, such as Basilisk II.) You can then use Stuffit Expander to unpack the file in Mini vMac.However, as mentioned in the ImportFl page,"it is common to encounter aStuffit file that requires a more recent version of Stuffit Expander thanwill run on a Macintosh Plus. sit.hqx file into a Mini vMac disk image.As mentioned in the FAQ,this can be done using either the ImportFlutility, or else use the host operating system to work withdisk images as described in the Disk Imagepage. Beginningwith the page“ How to get started with Mini vMac”. When all else fails, you might try reading the documentation. complete wasteof time and am going to post an honest review about this. I have tried writing theseimages to hfs800k.DSK and to mfs800k.DSK, all taken from your blanks offering.Īpparently sending email to you doesn't work (again), since Ialready replied to this.Īnyway, Disk Copy directly accesses the floppy disk hardware,which Mini vMac doesn't emulate.įortunately, you don't need to use Disk Copy. ![]() Then tried using disk Copy6.1.3 under System 7.0.1, same images, same error. Ithen rebooted to System 7.0.1 (which was downloaded from another resource andbundled with an older version of minivmac), I repeated using Disk Copy 4.2, Iused the same image files, I got the same error -17. I have raised the memory allotment for Diskcopy, no success. I have tried writing 3rd party diskette images (that were intended for 800kdiskettes in the real world), I have tried writing 800k versions of System 7.0diskette images that I downloaded from Apple I have tried writing those imagesusing Diskcopy 4.2 under both System 6.0.8 and 7.0.1, all images fail to writewith error -17.
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