Write Mac Floppies on a PC?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Is there any free software available that will write macintosh floppy disks on a PC? See, I have a newer PC (running XP Pro) and I need to download files and put them on floppies that can be read on a Mac Classic running System 6 (soon to be 7.5).

The Macintosh Classic should already be able to read PC-formatted disks using the included PC Exchange extension (SD/720k or DD/1.44M -- not sure about HD/2.88M). As long as the files you're trying to transfer aren't applications and don't contain Mac "resources", it ought to work fine.

If you are trying to transfer applications, you've got a bigger problem than just disk format. Anything other than a Mac-compatible filesystem will clobber the files' resource fork unless they're wrapped up in something like StuffIt (.sit) or MacBinary (.hex) format.