Re: getting DOS onto a //c+

[Bruce.Baker@juge.com (Bruce Baker)]

 >The best software titles were NOT DOS 3.3 stuff on 5.25" disks. That
 >is akin to saying DOS 5.0 software were the best software for the
 >PC ever.  When I was an active Apple II user, I ditched DOS 3.3 as
 >soon as ProDOS came out because it was SO MUCH better.  As
 >far as I am concerned, the best 8-bit software came out after ProDOS.
 >DOS 3.3 5.25" stuff was limited mainly to using the lower 48k of
 >memory.  80 column capability, 128k to 1MB support, all the stuff
 >that made an Apple IIc/IIe/IIc+ much more than simply an Apple II+
 >was not tapped in DOS 3.3 programs.
 
I like prodos from an end user standpoint because I can easily have a hard
drive and all my favorite software within a few keypresses.  I do not like
switching disks.
 
There are a few, very few dos 3.3 programs I miss.  But they are not used.  I
keep most everthing so they are not gone, at least not yet.
 
Unfortunately so many old prodos games cannot easily be put on a hard drive.
I'd like chessmaster, some golf games, maybe a few fantasy games.  But they all
seem to be disk only. I'd like Eternal Dagger or Knights of Legend on my hard
drive.  That was the beauty of softdisk, I could install them on my hard drive.
But even though this is now a //gs, I run no 16 bit programs.  Gosh it seems
that gs/os must be inherently buggy because nothing seems stable on that
platform.
 
Bruce