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I have just bought a macintosh classic but it has no applications on it.

Disk Copy 6.x disk images store vital information in the data fork, which is stripped on most non-Macintosh computers. This can be avoided by using Disk Copy 4.2 image format which only stores tag and checksum data as a resource forks, but are otherwise raw binary files (there's even a utility to convert Disk Copy 4.2 images into raw image files.) However, the tag data can be useful.

I often use Basilisk II on my MacBook as an intermediary (System 7 + Newer Stuffit.) That way I can download a file and extract it with no issues. I then use Stuffit or DiskDoubler to compress the file as a self-extracting archive, then binhex encode the file. After that I shoot it over to my vintage Mac over FTP. I run NetPresenz, a free FTP, Gopher, & Web server on my vintage Mac, then just use a regular FTP client on my MacBoo to connect.
 
I use winimage usually. Most mac software is available in .sit or .dsk format, so pretty easy to use with winimage.


Theres a great place to find most stuff...
i have just downloaded winimage but i dont get how i can use it to write a file onto the floppy disk
 
i have just downloaded winimage but i dont get how i can use it to write a file onto the floppy disk
i have tried it a bit more but it just keeps coming up with errors and it says that the floppy has 0 bytes on it what am i doing wrong?
 
Sit images wont work with winimage, so you will need a mac emulator to create a diskette image. Baslink II is a good option. You can then write the virtual floppy image with winimage.
 
Alot of bad info going on in this thread. For all intents and purposes YOU CANT make a mac disk on a windows machine (except with a flux device in some situations, so lets just say you cant). You can make SOME mac disks on an apple II with a 3.5" drive and ADTPro.. But the real way of doing it is to make them on a mac with a cdrom drive (for transfering files- USB is a bit too much to ask in most situations and USB and floppy drives didnt exist on macs)

Get some powerpc mac with a floppy drive and cdrom. Load it up with system 7.5.3. Install Disk copy version 4.2, 6.2, and 6.3.3. This should cover most of the disk images you find. Download a disk image and mount the disk image. If it mounts and works use one of the disk copy versions (which ever one will work on the mounted disk image to create a new Disk image of the mounted disk. Save that disk image into a folder you make called "my created disk images" you should then be able to load any of the disk images you create into a version of disk copy and write it to floppy.

Sounds ridiculous? Yeah it is, the price you pay for using a mac before OSX. I have been through all this before. this is the most straightforward method and this is how I make mac disks (400K, 800K, and 1.44MB)
 
This is the way I have always made mac disks for 1.44s. Now 400/800 ya you are outta luck on a windows machine. Mac Classic has a 1.44mb drive.

Just another thought, make sure you are trying to write 1.44mb images.
 
Alot of bad info going on in this thread. For all intents and purposes YOU CANT make a mac disk on a windows machine (except with a flux device in some situations, so lets just say you cant).

Complete nonsense. Winimage can write 1.44MB disk image files for Macintosh machines fine. You can also use HFV Explorer to read and write Mac floppies and even hard drives if you have a SCSI controller. I've used this method for decades to get files from PC to Mac. You can even sometimes get away with writing 800k disk images if you tape over the capacity notch on the floppy.

If you have a Zip drive, you can format it for DOS and read it on a Macintosh with the PC Exchange control panel installed.

The only problem is that Windows doesn't know what resource forks are, so you have to keep files in a compressed container like .sit to avoid the files being clobbered when stored on the PC.
 
And this is the reason I bought an LC and installed a network card. Made this soooo much easier. I got tired of having to use baslink to make floppy images. It works but its sloooowwww by time you get a few diskettes made, there went an hour. But it does work.

Never had luck making 800k diskettes. Perhaps its just my usb floppy drive. In any event I have a better machine for that now. If OP needs someone to make a few diskettes, and mail them out, I am still willing to help.
 
LC's are relaible machines. I like them. Thats why I have 8. Plus you can find them for very little and connect an external scsi cdrom to them if need be.
 
BTW, reguarding winimage in windows 10. You CANNOT just dbl click a disk image file and it open it correctly. You have to load it while winimage is running, and make sure its in administrator mode! Also, you cannot format in win10, so just click write image.
 
I haven't needed to do this in awhile. My Mac G3 Lombard laptop had USB and the SCSI adapter which made it pretty easy. That died a few years back so I guess I'd now be in the same boat as the OP with getting something new onto one of my old 68k Macs. Since they're all in storage anyway, I dodged that bullet. ;)
 
No, I was using the Lombard as an easy way to get something from newer Macs onto older 68k machines. The Lombard had the USB to read a thumb drive, save that to an external SCSI then move that to the 68k.

The Lombard failed with some hardware problem I wasn't able to diagnose which board to replace. Not wanting to shotgun $$ into it, I decommissioned it. I no longer have that easy path and not enough need to bother.

Basically I was saying the Lombard is sorta like an LC as a workable, simple path to share files if a guy happens to have one.
 
Oh Understood. I guess a Mac Tweener may help in these circumstances if you find a PowerPC system with a PCI USB and scsi card. OR a Clone with the same.
 
The G3 powerbooks (Kanga, Mainstreet, Lombard for example) for many years were a very popular tweener mac because you had Ethernet, sometimes serial for Appletalk, floppy and CD options, they were fast enough to go online and download files, they were small and portable and because there was SCSI you could mount the drive of another mac on it once you halted its CPU with the interrupt switch. Often the batteries were still good.

The Tweener+ option is the above, plus either a physical server or a VM running Windows Server 2000/2003 with Appletalk enabled. Then you can download and manage your files on your main system and the server bridges your shared volume to Appletalk, so now you can click and drag files onto your tweener, then onto the disk.
 
Don't forget you can use an older NAS as well, Samba works well on Ethernet equipped macs. Just make sure it supports Samba v1.
 
I've never seen an LC that doesn't need a recap, but after that, generally reliable. There's even a homebrew adapter to convert a Pico power supply to LC.

The nice thing about an LC is that it has 2 spots for a floppy drive. If you get a smaller SCSI2SD, MacSD, Azul, Blue, etc. that you can just stuff in back somewhere, then you can mount a second floppy drive.
 
I've never seen an LC that doesn't need a recap, but after that, generally reliable. There's even a homebrew adapter to convert a Pico power supply to LC.

The nice thing about an LC is that it has 2 spots for a floppy drive. If you get a smaller SCSI2SD, MacSD, Azul, Blue, etc. that you can just stuff in back somewhere, then you can mount a second floppy drive.
Its absolutely true all LC's and thier PSU's need a recap. And as some would say (myself included) sometimes even after a recap the PSU's only work sometimes.

Ironically the first Macintosh II systems had axial through hole capacitors and still work fine. The later ones were a mix or all SMD and they leaked and corroded the boards to some being unrepairable.
 
I never recapped my LC and its fine, no leaks, works great. My classic has been good too. Maybe i'm just lucky?
 
i have 1 or 2 not recapped yet. they boot.. but after being on a while they they wont turn on again
spent caps. dont hold it as a point of pride. recap those things. those garbage smd caps always leak... including yours.
 
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