Re: Installing Games on the IIgs Hard Drive, What am I Doing Wrong??

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Monday, February 11, 2013 11:11:29 PM UTC-6, Bill Garber wrote:
> "David Schmidt" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote in message 
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> news:kfbf6g$o5e$1@dont-email.me...
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> > On 2/11/2013 12:44 PM, Bill Garber wrote:
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> >> "David Schmidt" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> >> news:kfb6ed$f3k$1@dont-email.me...
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> >>> On 2/11/2013 11:11 AM, Tempest wrote:
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> >>>> On Monday, February 11, 2013 10:06:28 AM UTC-5, schmidtd wrote:
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> >>>>> On 2/11/2013 9:45 AM, Tempest wrote:
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> >>>>>> I don't think ADTPro would work because it can only transfer images 
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> >>>>>> to
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> >>>>>> a disk drive or the RAM disk.  Unless there's another option I'm
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> >>>>>> missing.
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> >>>>>
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> >>>>> Sure it will.  You'd want the block sizes to be pretty close (and 
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> >>>>> ignore
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> >>>>> the "size mismatch" warning if they aren't exact).  Also be sure 
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> >>>>> there's
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> >>>>> nothing on the partition you're about to overwrite... but it'll lay 
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> >>>>> down
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> >>>>> a whole 32MB drive's worth of a disk image if you want.
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> >>>>
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> >>>> ADTPro will see my hard drive? I don't think I've ever seen it show up 
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> >>>> as
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> >>>> a disk in the menu.
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> >>>
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> >>> Sure it will.  Boot GSOS like usual, except hit the '8' key right after
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> >>> reset or power-on to just boot into ProDOS 8.  That should have enough
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> >>> underpinnings to see your hard drive.  You can then start ADTPro from a
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> >>> floppy or from the hard drive itself, wherever you put it.
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> >>
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> >> I start ADTPro from GSOS, and it drops me into ProDOS automagically.
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> >> This can be done via floppy disk as well as from hard drive as I do. 
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> >> 8o)
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> >
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> > Well, GSOS can play havoc with timing (especially of the serial port, but 
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> > less so of the Uthernet).  See the "IIgs/GSOS Note" at the end of the 
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> > section here:
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> > http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/starting.html#Starting_the_Client
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> Thanks David.  I will need to hook up the serial port and have some
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> experimentation with that.  Perhaps it's the increased speed under the
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> GSOS environment.  Have you tried it running at normal speed?
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> Bill Garber
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> http://www.sepa-electronics.com

It should be possible, but it might be necessary to disable interrupts in the driver.  This is an area I'm going to explore sooner or later, as I don't have a disk drive hooked up to my //gs and I would like to be able to just boot into Prodos directly without a disk.  (See other post about stuff that does things...)

-B