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MZG
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How do you get data from a MacPlus to a modern machine?

Hi Guys,

I have done some hunting and have found Robert Martin!!

He says he still has the old code for Pharoah on his MacPlus, though he is not sure if it still works.

Assuming he plugs it in, turns it on and his disks are still good, how does he go about getting the data off the old box and into his new machine?

Any help, or directions to help would be great. Smile

MattZG

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I'd need a little more information about the setup - Is the data un question on floppies, an external SCSI hard drive, or some other storage device? (The Mac Plus had no (official) internal HD).

If the data is on floppies, your best bet is to track down a Mac with a floppy drive, and preferably, an IDE hard drive. Copy the data from the floppy (or floppies) onto the HD, and temporarily attach the HD to a modern Mac.

If you're dealing with a SCSI HD, you'll need a SCSI to FireWire converter.

Either way, the goal is to get the data to a modern Mac, so a disk image can be made, and the application distributed.

I have some of the equipment needed for this, as, I imagine, do many others on this site.

Let us know what we're dealing with, and we can go from there.

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Here are the solutions:
http://www.macintouch.com/macplustoimac.html
http://www.jagshouse.com/PlusToiMac.html

Anonymous

USB Floppy drive, bro

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My favorite was to use a "bridge" old mac to do this.

The Plus only supports disks up to 800kb (double sided, low density), making it impossible to communicate with any computer that has a modern disk drive, which can only read high density disks (1.4 mb). I personally used a cheap Powerbook 180 that I found, which can read both low and high density disks. Once that transfer was made on that particular machine, I could then use my main platform (PC) to read those same HD disks and do whatever I wanted, be it in emulators, upload it to the net, etc.

Good luck finding a good bridge mac. (SE/30 would also work well for this task, as newer Mac Classics. I don't remember enough to give you a bigger list).

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When I got GreatWorks, which I uploaded here, USB Floppy + my current Mac (PowerBook G4 Late 05, Mac OS X 10.4.11) couldn't read it, same goes for PowerBook G3 Pismo (Mac OS 9.2 + Mac OS X 10.2/10.3), but the one the application has been created for (my PowerBook 190cs) was able to read the floppies. Then, suddenly imaged the floppies + transferred to current Mac with Iomage ZIP drive.

MZG
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Thanks for all the ideas guys, Robert actually has his old backdoor code for the game which he has emailed to me. So the need to do a transfer is not as urgent as it was before.

I have sent him an email, asking if he is happy for me to post the code here.

I will post when I have more news.

Regards to All,
MattZG

MZG
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Whoohoo!! Robert Martin has graciously allowed me to post a registration code for Pharoah , for all to share.

I will post it in the comments page for the application.

Smile

MattZG

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Great work, MZG.

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Might have to have a look for a USB floppy drive. I have Spaceward Ho IV on floppy disc, but my old Mac has died and my PC does not have a floppy drive. Plus it's a game that can't be uploaded here, as it is still for sale. Sad