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

[Paul Schultz <pschultz@med.wayne.edu>]

On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Greg J. Buchner wrote:

> Maybe to make things a little clearer on there being an Apple II
> emulator for the GS, what I would like to see would be something
> like DOS 3.3 Launcher, only it being Disk ][ Launcher.  I have
> several games that I paid good money for that I can't use at the
> moment as I don't have a 5.25 drive and they aren't in DOS 3.3.
> 
> It would be nice to have something that would intercept and
> reroute Disk ][ RWTS calls instead of just rerouting DOS 3.3
> calls.  It'd be nice to have the speed and accessability of a
> HD, with the ability to emulate several 5.25's.
> 

What you're after is a program called RunPro which was released
as shareware several years back. Unfortunately, the publicly
available version lacks the ability to save to disk! (This feature
is available once you had paid the shareware fee.) 

Even worse, the author left the IIgs scene a few years back and
when I asked if he would release it as freeware (or release the
source code) he said he thought he lost everything in a hard drive
crash.

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 certainly would be in favor of such a product!

Paul.

pschultz@med.wayne.edu
Paul Schultz