Re: Will Trade GS Cracks!

[Toby Reiter <str4552@OBERLIN.EDU>]

 On 10 Oct 1996, Nathan Mates wrote:

> In article <Pine.PMDF.3.91.961009194602.1820815D-100000@OBERLIN.EDU>,
> Toby Reiter  <str4552@OBERLIN.EDU> wrote:
> >On a similar note, is there a program which can run images of floppies 
> >off the hard drive on a GS.  This would be a great way to keep all of 
> >those FTA demos without having to sacrifice any of my floppies (with a 
> >270 megabyte hard drive, space is just not an issue).
> 
>    Given that the FTA programmers went very on the metal for 3.5"
> disk access (so low-level that they broke Unidisk support), that's not
> really an option.
> 
>    Free tools may let you push the rules a little. But, most of those
> things'll come back and bite you bigtime later on. Look at the GS<>IRC
> demos for how to properly do a demo compatible with GS/OS, and the
> like.  Much nicer overall.
I wonder who was responsible for that <wink>.  Well, I tried the IRC 
demo, thought it was decent...and only decent. O.k. music, but that's 
about it. Give me FTA's Blue Helmet any day!  I was thinking that this 
would work the same way that disk images work on Apple IIe emulators on 
the PC and Macintosh. I know there was a program made called RunPro, 
which allowed DOS 3.3 programs to be run from the GSOS (or at least a 
shell--never really tried it out).

Toby