Re: Apple IIgs Gaming Questions

[Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

in article 7je99155stvppmm428pjv78efi6v45bo2s@4ax.com, Mitchell Spector at
mitch2gs@hotmail.com wrote on 5/25/05 2:04 PM:

> "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> You can not actually run a disk image from a hard drive, I wish.
>> However, you can extract files from them and load them from hard
>> drive, provided they can run without the physical disk.
>> 
>> For DOS 3.3 disks to be read in GS/OS, you need to install the
>> DOS33.FST from the installation scripts.
> 
> That's not entirely true, there is "DOS 3.3 Launcher" by John MacLean.
> From what I remember it came with a utility to read a physical 5.25 disk
> formatted in DOS 3.3, and write it to your hardisk as a 140K disk image
> (ProDOS order image or *.po, _not_ compatible with *.dsk or *.2mg).
> 
> It works on the Apple IIe, IIc, IIc Plus and IIgs. On the IIgs you'd
> simply double-click on the image file from the Finder, and the DOS 3.3
> image on the hardisk would launch (it'd even automatically slow down
> to 1 MHz operation). It worked fairly well I remember, though I vaguely
> remember it not working with games that used over 48K RAM.
> 
> Here it is, I think version 2.2 was the final release:
> ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/apple16/Dos33/
> 
> Mitchell Spector

There are a number of solutions similar, but my statement
stands, you can't simply copy a .DSK image to a hard drive
and run it. DOS MASTER is the one I use, or would use if I
was to run 5.25 disks at all. I usually convert the files
from DOS 3.3 to ProDOS via the conversion program on the
ProDOS User's Disk. Most of the single file games work this
way, although some won't save things to the disk once they
are converted. Also, not being a big gamer, I just pull out
the IIe when I do want to play. That said, yes, there are
solutions out there, if you choose to use them.

Bill Garber 
Email - Willy46pa@comcast.net