Re: Creating Startup Disks?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <1998042206453700.CAA04821@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>If it is a GS/OS program, you can use the SetStart control panel
>in System 6.0.1 to get it to work...assuming you can fit GSInvaders
>onto a 3.5" boot disk.

   Using SetStart eats at least 25K of disk space-- 18K for the
required Control.Panel NDA to load any CDevs, and 7K for the actual
SetStart CDev. When it's as simple as renaming a file to end in
'.SYS16' and dropping it in the root directory of the disk, that extra
25K allows you to put on larger programs or some other, more useful,
extensions on a disk, etc. On HDs, nobody cares too much about a few K
here and there, but on 800K disks, that's important.

Nathan Mates
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