Re: Apple IIgs advice...

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:41:58 +0000, sheercon@earthlink.net wrote:

>I have been itching to play some of my favorite games on the GS (like
>bard's tale and test drive) but when I put the disk in I get the
>message, "unable to load prodos". Does this mean the disk is bad? Or
>that prodos just isn't on the disk? Some disks work fine and some give
>me this message...is there some procedure I can use to run the games,
>like load prodos from a second drive or loading the game from the GS's
>GUI OS? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated...

It probably means that either the company that produced the game
didn't have a licence to distribute the operating system or that there
wasn't enough room on the disk for both the game and the operating
system.  Some companies provided an operating system disk in the
package, others didn't to save the cost of duplicating and shipping a
second disk.

Usually, you can just boot System 6.0.1, insert the game disk and
double click the icon for the game and your off.  However, some game
require a certain version of the System software to run correctly and
some games have their own operating system and must be booted
directly.

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