User`s guide

as the ones included in Copy II Plus, Locksmith, and Essential Data Duplicator,
may get the job done. Using it's built-in parms library, Copy II Plus can
reliably make copies of many copy protected disks.
If a lot of the software you need to copy is from MECC, a good try is to
get an MECC copy program by John Kielkopf named "meccopy". It makes deprotected
copies of many MECC diskettes.
You can find Disk Muncher, Copy II Plus, and other utilities mentioned
above on several archives as separate files, on disks in ShrinkIt whole-disk
(.sdk) form, and on emulator disk images (.dsk files). To download see links in
Csa21MAIN4 Q&A 001.
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From: Streaming Wizard, Phil Beesley
011- How can I read Apple II 5.25" floppies on a Mac?
Reading Apple II 5.25" floppies on a Mac requires the addition of special
hardware. One company, Kennect, did make two drives that would handle this
trick: the Drive 360 and the Drive 1200. They were primarily meant for reading
5.25" PC disks but were also advertised as having the ability to read Apple II
DOS 3.3 and ProDOS floppies. Both required a device called the "Rapport", which
plugged into the Mac's external floppy port and also gave the internal 3.5"
drive the ability to read 720K PC disks.
If your Mac is an LC or some later model with the LC Processor Direct Slot
(PDS) and it supports 24-bit memory addressing, you may be able to plug in a IIe
LC Card (or "IIe Emulation Card"). This, basically, installs an Apple //e in
your Mac to which an Apple II 5.25" Platinum drive can be connected. For more
information, see Main Hall Q&A #14.
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From: Supertimer
012- Can I create standard 3.5" IIgs diskettes on a Mac?
You are most likely to succeed with an older Mac. However, even older Macs
that have built in compatible 800k (DD) drives will often produce a IIGS
diskette that is not quite right-- such as a diskette that should boot gives the
"Unable to Load ProDOS" error message.
If you have an older Mac that should write standard IIgs disks properly and
it does not, clean your Mac drive and keep trying. For instance, you may need to
extract a diskcopy archive a few times for the disk to write properly.
Newer Macs are, generally, less likely to succeed. Some Macs, such as iMacs
with a floppy drive option, cannot format IIgs-compatible 800k diskettes.
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From: Simon Williams