Re: Q: Test Drive on Hard Drive

[zelix@drift.winternet.com (Peter Handel)]

Looks like it's time to add to the FAQ ;)

In article <3qte9b$b0f@nyx10.cs.du.edu>,
Andrew Gerweck <agerweck@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:
>How can I install Test Drive II (and possibly Grand Prix Circuit) on my 
>hard drive.  

It's fun, easy, and completely safe even for household pets. :)

>I have an 85 meg hard drive in 4 partitions (startup, 
>programs, games, and data, in that order).  I realize that ProDOS 16 will 
>only deal with the first 2 partitions (startup and programs) and this is 
>not a problem.  I already have made /Startup into a play disk, but I want 
>to be able to boot from hard disk too.  

When I got my Vulcan 40MB, I wanted to put those two games on my HD too,
but they both wanted a SYSTEM folder containing ProDOS 16.  So, what I
did was to rename it's SYSTEM to TDRIVE and it's PRODOS to TEST.DRIVE.
I also changed TD2.SYSTEM to TD2.DRIVE, and changed the ProDOS 16 to
look for files ending in .DRIVE instead of .SYS16.  With Block Warden, I 
made the necessary changes.

>I have a cracked copy (and an 
>original) so that's not the problem.  I have read files that say to 
>change all references to /TD2.MASTER/ to */.  I have a block editor and 
>know how to use it, but how do I replace one string with another of 
>unequal length?  

I had the same problem, but it works if you change:

/td2master/ccode   to
         */ccode

and just forget about the spaces in front of the *.  They should be
spaces (20 or A0...can't remember).

>I have tried the French HDINSTALL disk, but can't 
>understand the French well enough and can't figure it out.  All I want to 
>do is be able to double-click a program on my hard drive from the finder 
>and have it load off my hard drive, which I'm pretty sure can be done.  
>Somebody help me please.

This is exactly what I do:  I run "TEST.DRIVE" which loads the ProDOS 16
which loads the TD2.DRIVE program.  Works like a charm.  Even made a
lil' icon for TEST.DRIVE (and learned more than I ever wanted to know
about finder icons- blech!)

If you have any more questions, please email me directly, or check
out my Apple.Tips.TXT file posted here once in a blue moon.  It's
also available for ftp on my ftp site (ftp.stolaf.edu) in 
pub/apple2/incoming as      28028 May 15 01:50 a2tips.txt
or on my home page (http://www.stolaf.edu/people/handel).  Good luck!

>-- 
>        Andrew Gerweck | "White collar conservative flashing down the street,
>agerweck@nyx.cs.du.edu |  pointing their plastic finger at me."   - Hendrix


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