Re: IIe gui, which is best?

[jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt)]

In article <38BF2BC5.AB5107C0@webzone.net>, Stingray
<stingray@webzone.net> wrote:

> I finally got my original Apple SCSI card working, it turned out to have
> a bad EPROM. (many thanks to the gentleman who burned a new Rev C EPROM
> for me!) I removed the HS SCSI from my GS to test it, all seems to work
> well. I decided that this Rev C card will live in my Platinum IIe (for
> no rational reason). I installed the card in my IIe and it works fine
> with my GSs hard drive, so I'm scrounging around for parts to put
> together a HD for the IIe.
> 
> In a futile attempt to make a long story short: I've been playing around
> with Apple II Desktop, but not much software seems to run under that
> particular gui. Is there a better one? Should I just use a program
> launcher?

Well, actually, that's what you are doing right now. Apple II Desktop _is_
a program launcher. When you open a SYS file with it, and after the SYS
file makes the quit call to ProDOS, you return to Apple II Desktop. What
makes software run under that GUI is when the software has the exact same
GUI as Apple II Desktop. Underneath Apple II Desktop is ProDOS, which is
the _real_ operating system.

There is another GUI for the Apple II called GEOS, but not much software
runs under that, either. GEOS also needs ProDOS to work.

> Which one works best on a IIe starting up from a HD?

For a IIe, the best thing to use is plain-vanilla ProDOS 8. You'll want to
get a program launcher if you expect to be able to find anything on the
hard drive. You can use Apple II Desktop, or GEOS, or BASIC.SYSTEM with my
ProDOS File Navigator program, or any other program launcher.

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