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- This directory contains Mac utilities and disk images. We recommend placing
- your Macintosh disk image files (floppy images, hard disk images, and CD-ROM
- images) into this directory for convenience.
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- COPYROM.HQX is the CopyROM utility to create Macintosh ROM image files
- from your Macintosh computer. This can be used to create ROM images files
- on Macintosh Plus computers (for use with Gemulator 2000 and vMac) and on
- Macintosh II and Quadra series computers (for use with SoftMac 2000).
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- To run CopyROM, copy the file COPYROM.HQX to a floppy disk, place that floppy
- in your Macintosh, extract COPYROM using StuffIt Expander (which you probably
- already have installed on your Macintosh), then copy the resulting ROM file
- back to the floppy and copy it to your PC. The Macintosh ROM file needs to
- be placed either in the root of your C: drive or in the same directory as
- the SoftMac program files, and should have a .ROM extension (for example,
- QUADRA.ROM, MAC.ROM, etc).
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- TRANSFER.HQX is a Macintosh utility that runs on Mac OS 7 and higher on
- SoftMac 2000 to give the Mac OS external file access to Windows hard disk
- partitions and network drives. The decompressed Transfer utility is provided
- on the Utities disk image. Use the Transfer utility to transfer large file
- (those too large to fit on floppy disk) to and from Macintosh disk volumes.
- For example, when downloading large multi-megabyte StuffIt archives (HQX files)
- from the Internet, you can use Transfer to copy that file to a Macintosh disk
- image file. At this time only the data fork of the file is copied. Future
- releases will support direct transfers to Macintosh volumes on Windows 2000
- Server shares.
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- MODE32.HQX is the MODE32 utility which allows 32-bit dirty Macintosh II ROMs
- to boot up 32-bit clean. Use this to run some newer Macintosh software on your
- older 256K Macintosh ROMs. This utility is only for use with Macintosh IIx,
- IIcx, and SE/30 ROMs. Later ROMs (Mac IIci, LC, IIsi, Quadra, etc.) are already
- 32-bit clean.
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- UNTITLED.IMG is a floppy disk image of a freshly formatted Macintosh floppy
- disk. Use this image with the Gemulator Explorer utility to quickly "format"
- any MS-DOS formatted floppy disk into Macintosh format. All data on the disk
- will be destroyed, so only use this to quickly reformat a disk in Mac format.
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- The UTILITY.IMG file is a Macintosh floppy disk image which already has the
- CopyROM utility and MODE32 installer expanded. To save time, you can simply
- transfer this disk image to a real floppy disk using Gemulator Explorer.
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- In either case, to format a 3.5-inch floppy disk with either the contents of
- UNTITLED.IMG or UTILITY.IMG, run Gemulator Explorer, insert a 1.44M 3.5-inch
- floppy disk into your PC's A: drive, click on the "Non-DOS floppy on A:" icon
- then select the "Write Image File to Physical Disk" menu command. Select the
- appropriate image file and click "Open". The disk image will then be copied
- to the floppy disk. At this point you have a Macintosh formatted floppy disk
- which you can then use either with an emulator or on a real Macintosh.
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- We recommend transfering the UTILITY.IMG disk image to a floppy disk and copy
- the files on that disk to your Macintosh. This will copy over CopyROM and some
- other useful utilities and sample documents.
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- File extensions:
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- Floppy disk image files usually have a .IMG or .DSK extension and will be about
- 400K, 800K, or 1440K in size.
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- Images with a .HFX extension are Disk Copy compatible hard disk partition
- images and can be treated as large floppy disk images. There only hold one
- disk partition and cannot be reformatted. We do not recommend their use.
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- You can use the MAKEIMG utility to create either .IMG or .HFX disk image files.
- These can also be created directly from within the SoftMac 2000 emulator.
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- Images with a .DSK extension are true SCSI hard disk images, and are the best
- images to use with SoftMac as they allow reformatting and repartitioning of the
- image into multiple partitions. These can also be created directly from within
- SoftMac 2000.
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- When you create a CD-ROM image using Gemulator Explorer, you should give it a
- .DSK or .CD extension. SoftMac 2000 has the ability to boot CD-ROM disk images
- as real CD-ROMs, thus allows you to mount and boot up with up to 7 Macintosh
- CD-ROMs at once. This feature allows you to have multiple Macintosh CD-ROMs
- on the Mac desktop at once, even if your PC only has a single CD-ROM drive.
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