Re: Disk ][ Launcher (was: Late night musings...)

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us>]

On 28 Aug 1996, Nathan Mates wrote:

> In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960828134141.25369A-100000@moose>,
> Paul Schultz  <pschultz@med.wayne.edu> wrote:
> >To address your need to run programs on 5.25 disks I think what
> >really is needed is a disk image mounter program which would allow
> >you to mount 5.25 images on your desktop as if they were real drives.
> 
>    I looked into this for Swatdisk functionality. Basically, GS/OS is
> not re-entrant, so drivers cannot subcontract out to others. In other
> words, the driver that lets the disk image look like a real disk
> cannot read or write to the disk holding the disk image at will.
> 
> Nathan Mates

Well, I had Swatdisk for a while, but I couldn't find any current
need for it for me.  I don't need to get anything off of 5.25 images,
I just want to run stuff off of them, mostly Ultima ///, Ultima V &
Wings of Fury.  I'm not looking for a desktop //e emulator...what
I'd be interested in is something like DOS 3.3 Launcher that instead
of re-routing the DOS 3.3 stuff to ProDOS commands, would route the
5.25 disk interface calls to ProDOS.

Greg B.

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