With an inserted USB thumb drive copy of her G4 tower's hard drive, I can open the files under Classic environment on my G5 tower running OS X 10.4 (Tiger, for you cat lovers). However, I decided that I'd like to actually install SuperPaint on my G5.
I dug out the SuperPaint box from my top shelf, and found a packet of 4 floppies inside. I tried inserting the first of these in my Imation SuperDisk drive attached to the G5, but it couldn't read it. The reason is that, as linked to in the second post in this thread, floppy drives based on the Matsushita (now Panasonic) SuperDisk (which can also read/write a higher-capacity format which died because of the advent of CD drives) can only read 1.4MB floppies written with the IBM constant-speed technology-not floppies written with the Apple variable-speed 800KB technology. #Mac se floppy emulator installĪldus-like some other software vendors- put out SuperPaint 3.5 on 800KB floppies, so that people with older Macs would be able to install it.
Once I realized the problem, I booted up my long-neglected but trusty Mac SE/30, running System 7.5.
Using its Apple SuperDrive, I copied each of the 800KB floppies onto a blank 1.4MB floppy (using a stash of blank floppies I had bought at the Cornell campus store, which was having a sale just when my youngest nephew graduated). If you ever have access to an old Mac that can do this, the technique is to Eject Disk from the Special (I think) menu without dragging the icon of the 800KB floppy to the Trash. This leaves the icon of the 800KB floppy on the desktop, where you can drag it over the icon of a freshly-inserted blank 1.4MB floppy.
System 7 will copy about half the 800KB floppy contents, then demand that the 800KB floppy be re-inserted (it's demanding the floppy by name, so make sure the blank floppy has been initialized with a name different from the that of the 800KB floppy). It will then demand that the 1.4MB floppy be re-inserted, and will finally copy the rest of the 800KB floppy.
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