Getting Software

Once you have Sweet16 up and running, you'll need some software to run!

A Boot Disk

First of all, you'll need a bootable system disk. There are two ways to get up and running on this front: the Easy Way and the Not-so-easy Way.

Keep in mind that since BeOS can't read 800k floppy disks, you can't just pop in an Apple II system diskette and boot from it.

The Easy Way

If you already own a real Apple IIGS, you can transfer your IIGS hard disks to your BeOS system for use in Sweet16. This is great because then all your software comes along, and you don't have to do any further installing. Here's how to do it:

  1. On your real Apple IIGS, download ImageMaker from the SheppyWare web site at http://www.sheppyware.net/software/imagemaker_gs/. Unpack ImageMaker onto your real IIGS.
  2. Make sure you have a lot of disk space somewhere (room enough to hold a copy of your boot disk). Since ProDOS uses sparse files, if your boot disk isn't full, the disk image version of it will fit on a disk of the same size that's mostly empty. For example, if your boot disk is 32 MB but only has 20 MB of stuff on it, the disk image version will only be a little larger than 20 MB in size, so it will fit on a partition with, say, 25 MB of free space.
  3. Launch ImageMaker. From the list of disks, pick your boot disk. Choose your preferred disk image format (Universal Disk Image format is preferred for use in Sweet16), then click the Create button.
  4. In the Standard File save dialog that appears, enter the name of the disk image file you want to create. Be sure to attach the appropriate suffix to the name to let Sweet16 identify the file: .2mg for Universal Disk Image, .raw for DiskCopy 6 or raw format, or .dc for DiskCopy 4.2. Make sure you save it on the disk that has enough room!
  5. Once ImageMaker has made your disk image, use a telecom program or FTP program to transfer it to your BeOS system. If you have a Zip drive or similar removable disk system on your IIGS, you can use that (if you have a compatible drive on your BeOS system).
  6. On the BeOS system, copy the image to your Sweet16 directory. You're all set!

The Not-so-easy Way

If you don't already have a real Apple IIGS, or you don't have any means of getting disk images from your IIGS to your BeOS system, you can still use Sweet16! It will just take a little longer to get set up.

You can download the Apple IIGS system software disk images in Zip archives from http://www.apple2.org/EmuHelp/. Just download them, unzip them, and drop the System or Install disk into the Sweet16 directory, then launch Sweet16 to boot.

Installing Your Own Software

If you already own Apple IIGS software, either on floppies or on your IIGS hard disk, you can install it onto your Sweet16 setup. There are two basic ways to do this.

If your IIGS has a high-density floppy drive (or a Zip drive, and your BeOS system has one as well), you can simply format a ProDOS or HFS high-density floppy or Zip disk, copy your files onto it, then take the disk to the BeOS system and mount it in BeOS as discussed in the section Disks and Disk Images. Once you've done that, you can simply drag files from the mounted disk onto your Sweet16 hard disk images.

The other way is to use ImageMaker to create images of your floppies, then copy them to your BeOS system. If you can't FTP them, you can email them to yourself, then fetch your email on the BeOS system to receive the files.

If you have files on your IIGS hard disk that you need to transfer, you can do so by setting up a RAM disk on your IIGS, then copying the files onto that. Then use ImageMaker to make a disk image of the RAM disk and copy that over to the BeOS system.

The Sweet16 Starter Kit

You can download the Sweet16 Starter Kit, which includes some basic utilities and games, already in a Universal Disk Image file, ready to use on Sweet16. This isn't a bootable disk, but includes software including GS-ShrinkIt, Hermes, GSCII+ (a Binscii and UUencode converter), GUPP (which fixes some bugs in GS/OS and other apps), the HFS Patch (which fixes a bug in the HFS FST that can cause disks to become corrupted), One Arm Battle (a fun slot-machine type game), TurkeyShoot, and FlameStation.

This disk is identical in contents to the Bernie ][ The Rescue Starter Kit, but is compressed in Zip format for easy access by BeOS users.

Getting Other Software

There are lots of places to get software for the Apple IIGS. Here are some links to some of my favorite sites:

Commercial Products

Shareware and Freeware


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