SuperSelector as the main program launcher

[obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2)]

In a message dated 3/17/00 8:14:52 AM, stingray@webzone.net writes:

<< I usually only use superselector when I'm running

from a floppy disk. >>

I used to do the same.  I still run DeskTop 1.1 at school because it looks
modern, friendly and familiar to everyone who uses it, as well as creating a
"Gee Whiz" quality for those who have only used Apple IIs to play Oregon Trail.
 It's great for manipulating files on the hard drive and for combining similar
subdirectories that share some, but not all files.  Still, SuperSelector has
advantages over DeskTop:  

+It recognizes all 14 volumes allowed on a IIe (DeskTop only recognizes the
LAST 10, so with my two 3.5 and two 5.25" drives, Desktop can't recognize the
first volumes of a hard drive in slot 7 if there are more than six volumes on
it).

+It boots up without checking the drives.  DeskTops checks them all -- TWICE!  


+When you quit a program and return to SuperSelector, it doesn't check the
drives,
  where DeskTop checks them all of the drives.

+It boots up in less than a second.

+It only takes up one file on the main directory.

+Its text-based screen is much less likely to cause a burn-in problem for the
monitor.

+It reads off of the ProDOS clock.

These are the sort of things that make it the main launcher on my IIe at home.

Jay Edwards