Re: DOS 3.3 Launcher

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <CwCot2.5Ko@nntpa.cb.att.com>,
J. L. Walters <bird@nwsrs.nw.att.com> wrote:
>Has anyone been able to get DOS 3.3 Launcher to work with a disk as
>opposed to a single load file? The person sending me the following
>e-mail has not and has tried everything that they can think of.
>Any and all help appreciated. (The person has what we believe is the
>latest DOS 3.3 Launcher which was uploaded to the net about six months
>ago.)

   Versions 2.0 and 2.1 have been working since I tried them on my Rom
01 GS. I haven't really tried uploading any ProDOS disks to it (as you
seem to have hinted at), and certain copy-protected [game] disks can't
be read by the Dos33.Copier program, and therefore not installed.
Certain more subtly protected disks go out to the hardware (a no-no,
as there's a HD there, not a disk) and would therefore fail in other
ways.

   But, standard Dos 3.3 disks (System Master, game collections, etc)
have loaded just fine. There were some reports of problems in 2.0, but
I don't seem to have run into them, and 2.1's working fine. Now, if
only someone could write a program to put Wizardry 5 (cool game that I
can't fine a solution for) on the HD, it'd be really cool.  On the
other hand, did the old Ohio Cache drive controller (precursor to the
RamFAST, I've heard) really work that well (especially with Pascal
style 5.25"s) with a GS daisy-chained disk? [If so, I might want to
pick up one sooner or later...]

Nathan Mates
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