
This directory contains Mac utilities and disk images. We recommend placing
your Macintosh disk image files (floppy images, hard disk images, and CD-ROM
images) into this directory for convenience.

COPYROM.HQX is the CopyROM utility to create Macintosh ROM image files
from your Macintosh computer. This can be used to create ROM images files
on Macintosh Plus computers (for use with Gemulator 2000 and vMac) and on
Macintosh II and Quadra series computers (for use with SoftMac 2000).

To run CopyROM, copy the file COPYROM.HQX to a floppy disk, place that floppy
in your Macintosh, extract COPYROM using StuffIt Expander (which you probably
already have installed on your Macintosh), then copy the resulting ROM file
back to the floppy and copy it to your PC. The Macintosh ROM file needs to
be placed either in the root of your C: drive or in the same directory as
the SoftMac program files, and should have a .ROM extension (for example,
QUADRA.ROM, MAC.ROM, etc).

TRANSFER.HQX is a Macintosh utility that runs on Mac OS 7 and higher on
SoftMac 2000 to give the Mac OS external file access to Windows hard disk
partitions and network drives. The decompressed Transfer utility is provided
on the Utities disk image. Use the Transfer utility to transfer large file
(those too large to fit on floppy disk) to and from Macintosh disk volumes.
For example, when downloading large multi-megabyte StuffIt archives (HQX files)
from the Internet, you can use Transfer to copy that file to a Macintosh disk
image file. At this time only the data fork of the file is copied. Future
releases will support direct transfers to Macintosh volumes on Windows 2000
Server shares.

MODE32.HQX is the MODE32 utility which allows 32-bit dirty Macintosh II ROMs
to boot up 32-bit clean. Use this to run some newer Macintosh software on your
older 256K Macintosh ROMs. This utility is only for use with Macintosh IIx,
IIcx, and SE/30 ROMs. Later ROMs (Mac IIci, LC, IIsi, Quadra, etc.) are already
32-bit clean.

UNTITLED.IMG is a floppy disk image of a freshly formatted Macintosh floppy
disk. Use this image with the Gemulator Explorer utility to quickly "format"
any MS-DOS formatted floppy disk into Macintosh format. All data on the disk
will be destroyed, so only use this to quickly reformat a disk in Mac format.

The UTILITY.IMG file is a Macintosh floppy disk image which already has the
CopyROM utility and MODE32 installer expanded. To save time, you can simply
transfer this disk image to a real floppy disk using Gemulator Explorer.

In either case, to format a 3.5-inch floppy disk with either the contents of
UNTITLED.IMG or UTILITY.IMG, run Gemulator Explorer, insert a 1.44M 3.5-inch
floppy disk into your PC's A: drive, click on the "Non-DOS floppy on A:" icon
then select the "Write Image File to Physical Disk" menu command. Select the
appropriate image file and click "Open". The disk image will then be copied
to the floppy disk. At this point you have a Macintosh formatted floppy disk
which you can then use either with an emulator or on a real Macintosh.

We recommend transfering the UTILITY.IMG disk image to a floppy disk and copy
the files on that disk to your Macintosh. This will copy over CopyROM and some
other useful utilities and sample documents.

File extensions:

Floppy disk image files usually have a .IMG or .DSK extension and will be about
400K, 800K, or 1440K in size.

Images with a .HFX extension are Disk Copy compatible hard disk partition
images and can be treated as large floppy disk images. There only hold one
disk partition and cannot be reformatted. We do not recommend their use.

You can use the MAKEIMG utility to create either .IMG or .HFX disk image files.
These can also be created directly from within the SoftMac 2000 emulator.

Images with a .DSK extension are true SCSI hard disk images, and are the best
images to use with SoftMac as they allow reformatting and repartitioning of the
image into multiple partitions. These can also be created directly from within
SoftMac 2000.

When you create a CD-ROM image using Gemulator Explorer, you should give it a
.DSK or .CD extension. SoftMac 2000 has the ability to boot CD-ROM disk images
as real CD-ROMs, thus allows you to mount and boot up with up to 7 Macintosh
CD-ROMs at once. This feature allows you to have multiple Macintosh CD-ROMs
on the Mac desktop at once, even if your PC only has a single CD-ROM drive.

