I'm a bit late to the party, but so must a lot of you people as well, I'm guessing!
There was a massive December 11th firmware update for the Mac side of the FloppyEmu project:
If you're rolling with a FloppyEmu on a Plus: you'll often prefer System 6, so it cuts you off from graceful management of .sit and .hqx from mac garden, which we all know require 7.5.3+ in order to use the painless Stuffit Expander and DropStuff we all love. ISOs won't mount unless you have DesktopMgr installed. I don't want to imagine how any of this is helpful with a 512k or 128.
If you're rolling with a SE, SE/30 or more, the floppyemu is already marginally relevant because BlueSCSI is stronger on these anyway, don't require you to massage the bluescsi ini file and invert your ID # naming schemes because SCSI is weird on Pluses, etc.
*Desktop Manager (enable cd mounting under System 6): https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/desktop-mgr-201 The irony is: if you're putting this .sit file and open/mount it with this newest firmware release of FloppyEmu under System 6, you won't be able to properly extract it. You gotta step into System 7 first, deal with it, and step back into System 6.
HDA mode:
I had to select hard disk mode on the FloppyEmu and was asked to reboot.
It selected a disk image I didn't want to boot with, so I pressed Next to go change it, and was asked to reboot again.
the result worked and played nice with the BlueSCSI v2 I have that had 3 more volumes to mount up.
If I tried to swap this HDA to a ISO (apple recovery cd 1999), I was asked to reboot, but the Mac Plus watch-icon-stalls. I'm thinking these steps MUST be performed in the few seconds of leeway you get when you power up the machine, but a disk hasn't started the boot process yet.
Rebooting again, brought me to a sad mac, chicken-and-the-egg situation, since I can't deal with CDROM unless a recent enough System 7 volume has booted (possibly from BlueSCSI) with a proper CD extension, but the FloppyEmu tries to take boot priority and will bomb out.
Switching to dsk mode forces the loading up of "Macintosh disks/Apps/Visite Guidee.dsk" a folder within a bluescsi volume I have (possibly the first in the priority list) which I never declared to be the System folder to boot with, using say, System Picker. It put me on an endless boot loop of that and I had to rescue myself out of it using FloppyEmu to force a boot with a system 6.0.8.dsk so I could delete that thing.
End of my woes? no. I tried to boot another random system folder from my sys6 app volume, so I had to resort to renaming BlueSCSI priority numbers and finally get to Sys 7.5.3 as my main booting drive.
Next, I use the mount-as-disk-volume feature, seems to work well enough. This is the file we're being told is necessary for system 6 dealings of CD iso images, so I'll try to process it under Sys 7.5.3:
Stuffit Deluxe, which opens by default, won't work because it needs 5+MB memory, not possible under a maxed Mac Plus with 4MB.
Stuffit Expander 4.0.2 to the rescue. I put the extension under a Sys6 folder.
After relaunching System picker and selecting the right 6.0.8 in which I copied Desktop Mgr, I'm off to the correct OS!
Then, I switch to CDROM mode, and I get back this sad mac screen again - meaning, chicken and the egg scenario because CDROMs hosted by FloppyEMU try to act as boot drives, but it can't be supported as boot drives in Pluses unless you're already in a specially patched environment.
There was a massive December 11th firmware update for the Mac side of the FloppyEmu project:
- StuffIt File Support via Boxing
- Macintosh Hard Disk support for Zulu SCSI, Blue SCSI, and CD-ROM images*
If you're rolling with a FloppyEmu on a Plus: you'll often prefer System 6, so it cuts you off from graceful management of .sit and .hqx from mac garden, which we all know require 7.5.3+ in order to use the painless Stuffit Expander and DropStuff we all love. ISOs won't mount unless you have DesktopMgr installed. I don't want to imagine how any of this is helpful with a 512k or 128.
If you're rolling with a SE, SE/30 or more, the floppyemu is already marginally relevant because BlueSCSI is stronger on these anyway, don't require you to massage the bluescsi ini file and invert your ID # naming schemes because SCSI is weird on Pluses, etc.
*Desktop Manager (enable cd mounting under System 6): https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/desktop-mgr-201 The irony is: if you're putting this .sit file and open/mount it with this newest firmware release of FloppyEmu under System 6, you won't be able to properly extract it. You gotta step into System 7 first, deal with it, and step back into System 6.
HDA mode:
I had to select hard disk mode on the FloppyEmu and was asked to reboot.
It selected a disk image I didn't want to boot with, so I pressed Next to go change it, and was asked to reboot again.
the result worked and played nice with the BlueSCSI v2 I have that had 3 more volumes to mount up.
If I tried to swap this HDA to a ISO (apple recovery cd 1999), I was asked to reboot, but the Mac Plus watch-icon-stalls. I'm thinking these steps MUST be performed in the few seconds of leeway you get when you power up the machine, but a disk hasn't started the boot process yet.
Rebooting again, brought me to a sad mac, chicken-and-the-egg situation, since I can't deal with CDROM unless a recent enough System 7 volume has booted (possibly from BlueSCSI) with a proper CD extension, but the FloppyEmu tries to take boot priority and will bomb out.
Switching to dsk mode forces the loading up of "Macintosh disks/Apps/Visite Guidee.dsk" a folder within a bluescsi volume I have (possibly the first in the priority list) which I never declared to be the System folder to boot with, using say, System Picker. It put me on an endless boot loop of that and I had to rescue myself out of it using FloppyEmu to force a boot with a system 6.0.8.dsk so I could delete that thing.
End of my woes? no. I tried to boot another random system folder from my sys6 app volume, so I had to resort to renaming BlueSCSI priority numbers and finally get to Sys 7.5.3 as my main booting drive.
Next, I use the mount-as-disk-volume feature, seems to work well enough. This is the file we're being told is necessary for system 6 dealings of CD iso images, so I'll try to process it under Sys 7.5.3:
Stuffit Deluxe, which opens by default, won't work because it needs 5+MB memory, not possible under a maxed Mac Plus with 4MB.
Stuffit Expander 4.0.2 to the rescue. I put the extension under a Sys6 folder.
After relaunching System picker and selecting the right 6.0.8 in which I copied Desktop Mgr, I'm off to the correct OS!
Then, I switch to CDROM mode, and I get back this sad mac screen again - meaning, chicken and the egg scenario because CDROMs hosted by FloppyEMU try to act as boot drives, but it can't be supported as boot drives in Pluses unless you're already in a specially patched environment.
