I am about to pull a load of system and software images from my dev cd's, but they are all in DART format (which is useless for mini vMac) i know of 2 ways of converting them (well 3 but one is only good for a quick fix in osx) i could convert them to dc4.2 format using diskcopy 6.3.3 or i could write them to actual floppies and read them with diskcopy 4.2, i know your not meant to read actual floppies using diskcopy 6.3.3 but what about converting?
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2011, April 21 - 1:32pm
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questions about converting DART images
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2014, April 26 - 9:37pm
#2
Sorry for the late response (saw this post today for 1st time). How did your conversions go & method you settled on?
Here's another option for consideration.
- Mount onto desktop (locked) DART images using Disk Copy 6.x
- Use ShrinkWrap 2.1 to image the mounted DART image to Disk Copy 4.2 format .image files.
Reasons: ShrinkWrap 2.1 preserves tag data, time stamps & Comments (if any), identical to Disk Copy 4.2 format. ShrinkWrap 2.1 auto saves to Disk Copy 4.2 format (Preference setting).
Beats using DART to burn to hard copy & DC 4.2 back to soft copy if pushed for time.
Do not use ShrinkWrap 3 or later as these were dumbed down WRT Disk Copy 4.2 format and produce images more like Disk Copy 6 versions of the 4.2 format.
2014, April 27 - 5:00pm
#3
Speedy response 
In the end i never extracted much, and what i did extract i just left as DART format
I never considered just mounting them and reading them back, seems like that would be the way to go
2014, April 27 - 9:25pm
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Speedy is my middle name; "Learning Curve" the other
Just discovered after 18 years or thereabouts, that ShrinkWrap 2.1 can convert DART images itself, directly to Disk Copy 4.2 .image format, preserving the all important tag data, etc; Without needing to image from a mounted image. Nor requiring Disk Copy 6 (or ShrinkWrap itself) to mount the DART image.
Saves a lot of time.