Mac system 7 and transferring files

[Seob]

I'm about to smash my pc and mac. I've been trying to get disk images to work on my mac running system 7. I'm trying to install Disk Copy 4 onto system 7 but with no luck. I've used a pc running windows vista and a mac running os x 10.6.

The disk copy files comes as a bin file. I was able to extract the bin file on my mac. Now the disk copy file uses the .sea extension.

This should be a self extracting file format, but i can't get it to work. If i use a 1.44 mb disk format as a pc disk, the file is automatically recognized as a PC exchange text file, with no option of telling system 7 it isn't.

If i try using a mac hfs formatted floppy i can't write a file to it on my mac os x. If i format it as a hfs+, i can't read it on my system 7.0.1 system.

I'm really don't know what to do next.

Been on the internet but i can't find the right programs, some links are dead.

 

How do you people transfer diskimages from you're pc/mac to you're non internet/network attached system 7 macs.

[akator]

How do you people transfer diskimages from you're pc/mac to you're non internet/network attached system 7 macs.

 

My only solution not using a network was with multiple Zip drives, a 1990s external SCSI Zip for the older Macs and a USB external Zip for the modern computers. Even that was a huge PITA, and I switched to transferring everything via network. Finding Ethernet devices for older all-in-one Macs is difficult and sometimes expensive, however it isn't too difficult to rig a null modem cable and transfer things that way.

 

Floppies could be a problem because older Macs didn't all have 1.44MB "Superdrives," many had 400K or 800K drives that are completely incompatible with any other floppy drive made in the last 20 years. I beat my head against the wall for a day before realizing that was my problem -- I was using an external USB drive that was working fine, but the old Macs couldn't read 1.44MB disks. I felt pretty silly that I forgot something so fundamental.

[Zenimus]

I remember something about the older disk formats not being able to handle files with longer name lengths. If you're using HFS, maybe that could be the problem. Try shortening the file name to something really simple?

 

Zip disks are what I usually use for this type of thing too. Someday I'd like to revive my old Performa and set up a retro gaming Mac.

[Seob]

Yes, i finally figured it out. I skipped using the PC, and wend on to try using the Mac.

I already could read HFS files on the my Mac OS X. But i couldn't write to the disks. After some more google, i found a file extention called fuseHFS. This extention enables MAc os X 10.6 to write to HFS disks.

To install it you first have to install MacFuse 2.1.5 or greater. Then launch the fuseHFS.pkg. After that you're all set and done.

I'm using a Teac USB drive connected to my Mac os X. I first formatted a disk with HFS on the my Mac LC. Then i inserted the disk in my Mac using Mac os X. Then i selected the diskcopy.sea file and copied it to the disk. After inserting the disk back into the mac using system 7, could immediately install diskcopy onto the Mac.