Re: Installing Games on the IIgs Hard Drive, What am I Doing Wrong??

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"David Schmidt" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote in message 
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> On 2/11/2013 12:44 PM, Bill Garber wrote:
>> "David Schmidt" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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>>> On 2/11/2013 11:11 AM, Tempest wrote:
>>>> On Monday, February 11, 2013 10:06:28 AM UTC-5, schmidtd wrote:
>>>>> On 2/11/2013 9:45 AM, Tempest wrote:
>>>>>> I don't think ADTPro would work because it can only transfer images 
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> a disk drive or the RAM disk.  Unless there's another option I'm
>>>>>> missing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure it will.  You'd want the block sizes to be pretty close (and 
>>>>> ignore
>>>>> the "size mismatch" warning if they aren't exact).  Also be sure 
>>>>> there's
>>>>> nothing on the partition you're about to overwrite... but it'll lay 
>>>>> down
>>>>> a whole 32MB drive's worth of a disk image if you want.
>>>>
>>>> ADTPro will see my hard drive? I don't think I've ever seen it show up 
>>>> as
>>>> a disk in the menu.
>>>
>>> Sure it will.  Boot GSOS like usual, except hit the '8' key right after
>>> reset or power-on to just boot into ProDOS 8.  That should have enough
>>> underpinnings to see your hard drive.  You can then start ADTPro from a
>>> floppy or from the hard drive itself, wherever you put it.
>>
>> I start ADTPro from GSOS, and it drops me into ProDOS automagically.
>> This can be done via floppy disk as well as from hard drive as I do. 
>> 8o)
>
> Well, GSOS can play havoc with timing (especially of the serial port, but 
> less so of the Uthernet).  See the "IIgs/GSOS Note" at the end of the 
> section here:
> http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/starting.html#Starting_the_Client

Thanks David.  I will need to hook up the serial port and have some
experimentation with that.  Perhaps it's the increased speed under the
GSOS environment.  Have you tried it running at normal speed?

Bill Garber
http://www.sepa-electronics.com