Re: Boot Dos3.3 progs/games from .dsk image on HD? (REAL IIgs)?

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

"Mitchell Spector" <a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote in message
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>     I seriously considered the C64 in the early 80's--especially
> because of its graphic, animation and sound capabilities, but
> ended up going the Apple II route. In retrospect I feel it was
> the better path, I enjoyed games just as much as my friends
> with C64's (I was envious of the sound mind you!) and it didn't
> take an eternity waiting for them to load! :)
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Also the Disk Drives were VERY S*L*O*W.  I recall a
C64 friend trying to convince me of the superiority of his machine
and was loading some software.  It took so long that we
had to keep checking back with his computer every few minutes.
I took like ten minutes to load.  The program may have been
impressive but the load up speed sucked.  One day he comes
over to my room and says that he bought some new software
for his machine.  It was an accellerator for this C64 drive. He
could now load the program in two minutes. OOOHHH!

I could have loaded a similar program on my computer in
under a minute since mine had a real floppy controller.  I
understand that it would even support the use of 720K
3.5" drives with appropriate software/OS's.  The built
in Disk Basic only formatted the 35 track 5.25 drives
of the day for a total of 156K.
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