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Unfortunate, because if they were HD floppies (1.44MB/2.0MB raw) they would read just fine, and USB floppy drives still work fine, even on Yosemite. Your best bet is to grab an old Mac on the cheap or ship the floppies to someone who has one. These can only be read by an old Mac - this is a hardware limitation as has been discussed already. These are double-density 800kB disks (would be 720kB formatted on a PC 1.0MB is the unformatted capacity).

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I will definitely update when I get the drive. I got a look at them and they are a mix of DD/DD with 1.0 mb printed on them and some others that have variations of MF2 DD on them with no stated capacity. I think this had something to do with a utility program being used to unpack the contents.

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Unfortunately, after I copied all 4 SuperPaint disks onto 1.4MB floppies, OS X 10.4 froze trying to install from the first floppy. (I presume System 7 is doing this by caching part of the 800KB floppy contents in main storage-and that's magnificent old Classic technology for you.) It will then demand that the 1.4MB floppy be re-inserted, and will finally copy the rest of the 800KB 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). 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.

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. 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). Once I realized the problem, I booted up my long-neglected but trusty Mac SE/30, running System 7.5.

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Aldus-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.

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. I tried inserting the first of these in my Imation SuperDisk drive attached to the G5, but it couldn't read it. I dug out the SuperPaint box from my top shelf, and found a packet of 4 floppies inside. However, I decided that I'd like to actually install SuperPaint on my G5. 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). I had to deal with this a few weeks ago, when trying to revive my ex-wife's SuperPaint files.