It shouldn't be this complicated or this difficult.ĭoes anyone know of any foolproof way of getting this job done that doesn't require a half dozen steps and a slew of broken utilities? Or anyone who does this kind of thing as a service?

Various alternatives I've tried tend to have similar issues. Some of the image files are even too big for a floppy anyway. TransMac can't seem to talk to my floppy drive properly and won't even give me the option of writing anything to a floppy. WinImage doesn't like a single one of the .img files I've been able to successfully unpack. hqx format (I gave up around the time I ran into those). Some files I downloaded turned out to be in.

img files at all, and it looks like they're full-blown Macintosh files that my PC has no clue how to respond to. sit files I'm finding on the web, so I found an alternative. StuffIt Expander for Windows doesn't like the. Literally nothing seems to work as advertised. I've downloaded around 10 different utilities, and probably invited in a corresponding amount of malware in the process. This tutorial for example proved practically useless. For the past two nights I've been trying without avail to get Macintosh software downloaded from the internet onto Macintosh formatted floppy disks via my Dell running Windows XP.

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