Re: Installing games to a hard-drive

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@telus.dotnet>]

Craig Hulett wrote:

> I'm curious, can an Apple II or IIGS game that doesn't specifically mention
> that it can be installed on a hard-drive be installed on (and run from) one?
> For example, Neuromancer. It works fine (but slowly) on my IIGS when booting
> from the floppy and I wanted to try putting on my hard-drive to speed up the
> disk access.  Copied it over into a folder and then launched it.  All I got
> was a blue screen and an odd scrolling message about "corrupted memory" and
> a possible software bug or bad ram, and I wasn't sure if this was from
> trying to run it from the hard-drive or if something else was going on.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -craig

The usual problem in a case like this is a copy potected game.
Could also be an incompatible version of the OS or the floppy might
have a tool or something that's not present on the hard drives OS.

Wayne