Re: Dragon Wars IIgs - How do you start it?

[Alex Lee <alelee@mac.com>]

On 2013-01-31 02:04:13 +1100, Tempest said:

> On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 5:59:08 AM UTC-5, Alex Lee wrote:
> > On 2013-01-30 15:09:07 +1100, Tempest said:
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> > > I used the one from IIgs gaming fairway.  I didn't see a sys file, 
> > > but>> > I didnt check the desktop.  Maybe I just missed it?
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> > The icon's a bit hard to miss — I think it's the biggest icon that's>> 
> > ever been created on the IIGS! It's the dragon's head from the title>> 
> > screen – if it's not appearing on the desktop, it should be appearing>> 
> > in the window when you open the disk in the Finder.
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> > - Alex
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> > http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/
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> Yeah I've seen pictures of it, that's why I was wondering what happened 
> to it.  If it's on the desktop it was probably hidden by all the 
> windows I had open (damn tiny IIgs monitor!).  I'll check it tonight, 
> but I'm sure that was the problem.  I didn't know that files could 
> appear anywhere other than in the disk folder when a disk was inserted.
> Another quick question for you while I have your ear.  On the Fairway 
> it says that Runaway Robots is HD installable, but when I tried to run 
> it it checked the disk drives a few times and then gave me some error 
> saying to check that the disk was inserted.  Is there a specific way 
> this has to be installed?

I've finally had some time to test Runaway Robots. You're right – it 
doesn't work from a hard drive. I tried changing the hard paths set in 
the code for the 'G' volume, but that didn't seem to work :-( It'll 
have to continue to be run from a floppy (or a volume called /Runaway). 
I've corrected the hard drive installable note on WITA2GS? to specify 
it isn't hard drive installable.

Did you get Dragon Wars up and running?

- Alex
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http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/