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- vMac - Obtaining a Macintosh Plus ROM
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- By PC.
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- Requirements
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- You require the following :
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- A Macintosh with a High Density Drive and PC Exchange (System 7.5 or above) or
- AccessPC.
- A Macintosh Plus.
- DiskDup+.
- 1 800 KB Disk.
- Stuffit Expander (on Macintosh with High Density Drive).
- System 6.08 Disk 1 (800 KB Version).
- CopyROM.hqx
- This document.
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- Where to Find the Above Software Tools?
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- System 6.08 (Look around for System 7, 7.01 and other System 6 versions)
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- ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Apple_SW_Updates/US/Macintosh/
- System/Older_System/System_6.0.x/SSW_6.0.8-800k_Disk1of4.sea.hqx
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- DiskDup+ 2.7 (recommended)
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- http://www.jumbo.com/pages/utilities/mac/util/diskfile/
- diskdupplus2.7.sit.hqx.download.htp
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- or
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- ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu
- ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu
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- Getting CopyROM from a PC to a Mac
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- You need to get a PC formatted disk and place the file "CopyROM.hqx" onto it.
- Take the disk to the Macintosh with PC Exchange and it should mount onto the
- desktop of the Mac as a PC Disk. Copy CopyROM.hqx to the local Mac's hard drive
- (by dragging CopyROM.hqx to the first icon in the top right hand corner). Do the
- same for System 6.08 Disk 1 and any other utilities you require.
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- Converting CopyROM.hqx to a Macintosh Application
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- You should be able to drag CopyROM.hqx directly onto Stuffit Expander, which
- will convert it from BinHqx format to a Macintosh Application. If for some
- reason your Stuffit Expander fails, open it manually and then select "Open╔"
- from the File menu and select CopyROM.hqx. It should then convert.
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- If you've gotten DiskDup/DiskCopy for the first time, convert these as well.
- Convert any other files you have acquired. If they have any .sea extensions,
- double-click on them to automatically expand them.
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- Creating a Macintosh Plus System Disk
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- Open up DiskDup+, and select "Hard Disk╔" and select your System 6.08 Disk 1
- image, which will load into RAM. Then insert your expendable 800 KB floppy disk,
- and allow it to write/verify the image to the disk. The disk will then eject.
- Quit DiskDup+. You'll use this disk to boot up the Mac Plus with CopyROM.
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- Creating the CopyROM Disk
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- Insert the System Tools disk (the one you just created) into the Mac. Delete
- everything on it except for what's in the System Folder. Copy CopyROM to System
- Tools, then eject the disk by dragging it to the trash.
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- Obtaining the ROM
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- Start the Mac Plus up with the System Tools disk in the internal disk drive. It
- should boot into the Finder. Double-click on CopyROM, it should run for a while,
- then quit with the file "vMac.ROM" appearing on the disk that is 128 KB in size.
- Select Shutdown from the Special menu, then turn the Mac Plus off.
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- Copying the ROM to the PC
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- Insert the System Tools disk back into the other Mac, and copy vMac.ROM to the
- hard drive. Then eject the disk, and insert your HD PC disk into the Mac, and
- then copy vMac.ROM to this disk. Take the PC disk to your PC, and copy vMac.ROM
- into the vMac directory, where it will be ready to use.
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- Congratulations!
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- You have successfully managed to obtain a legal copy of the ROMs from your Mac
- Plus! See, it wasn't so hard was it?
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- Things to Note
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- Please do not distribute your copy of the Mac Plus ROMs. These are currently
- still copyright by Apple Computer, and therefore making copies of this file is a
- infringement of the copyright laws. You should not use your Mac Plus and vMac
- simultaneously either. Please also refrain from flaming people who email/post
- asking for Mac Plus ROMs, or better still, direct them to the vMac web site/FAQ.
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- Contacts
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- Philip Cummins (PC) can be contacted via e-mail at
- xzjyxm@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au. If you have any problems please e-mail and
- someone (probably myself) will attempt to help you out.
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