Re: How do I ..?-- Save for SSI strategy games

[mark.REMOVE.percival@videotron.ca (Mark Percival)]

On 12 Jan 2000, fadden@netcom.com (Andy McFadden) wrote:

>Issue #85 has detailed instructions for converting about two dozen SSI
>games from RDOS to ProDOS, mostly developed by Evin (who had darn near
>every SSI game there was).  From my own collection, I managed to get
>Operation Market Garden, Computer Ambush, Phantasie, and Ringside Seat all
>on one 800K floppy, which is kinda neat since two of those games occupy
>more than one 5.25" disk.  Not only are the game files and save files
>accessible from ProDOS, the disk swapping is gone.
>
>A similar technique, for which programs are also present on www.fadden.com,
>can convert some of the old SSG games to ProDOS.  I have the original
>Reach for the Stars and the "1985" wargames on one disk.

I use your RDOS for SSI Baseball and it also works perfectly.  Not
only do I have the game accessable from ProDOS but I was also able to
convert all of the team data (about 150 teams) that I inputted by
hand.  Disk swapping is gone and all the data is on my hard disk.

Thanks.

Mark R. Percival
Montreal, Quebec

An Apple II fanatic since 1979.