Re: II Emulator for the IIgs? (Yes, I know it sounds redundant and rediculous)

[Joe Kohn <joko@crl.com>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
: > >Apple's Golden Master System 6 CD-ROM boots!
: > 
: >Shareware Solutions II does have several Apple II related CD-ROMs for sale,
: >but the System 6 Golden Master isn't one of them. To tell the truth, I don't
: >think that Apple has ever licensed anyone to duplicate that System 6 Golden
: >Master CD-ROM.

: I knew that...what I meant was that both you and Apple make/made
: IIGS data CD-ROMs, but that the one that Apple made could boot.

Ahhh...I misunderstood your point. 

The Golden Orchard has a ProDOS partition, so that is a bootable disk.

But, have you ever booted up GS/OS from a CD-ROM? It's very, very, very slow.

In my own personal use of the various Apple II CD-ROMs that I 
publish/distribute, I consider the disks to be merely storage mediums. 
Any software from the CDs that I want to run, I just copy to my hard 
drive and run from there. After all, loading software from a hard drive 
is soooo much faster than loading it from CD-ROM. 

That's especially true, considering that most of us who use CD-ROMs on 
our IIGS have the older single and double speed CD-ROM disks.

Joe Kohn