Re: Apple // emulation contention

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

O Aaland (oaaland@aol.com) wrote:

: >You can't do that with a //e card in an LC class Mac either. You run an app
: >called IIe Startup, which causes the card to kick in. It gives a splash screen
: >and tries to boot from a 5.25 drive connected to the card or a 3.5 disk in the

: >Mac's drive, hence the Mac looks like a //e when you first fire it up.

: Actually on my Mac when I double click a ProDOS 8 file it launches IIe startup
: and from there it is like any other IIe, you still have to load the file once
: the
: application program is running.

Well this certainly doesn't apply to files on a 5.25 disk, as a 5.25 drive 
isn't reachable from the Finder. But if I get what you're saying, opening
ProDOS 8 app files on a 3.5 or hard disk volume in the Finder causes IIe 
Startup to run them directly, rather than just booting the IIe from the device
it expects to boot from. Is that so? I've only used my IIe card for running 
old DOS stuff off 5.25s so far since I've only had it and the Color Classic it 
lives in for about a month now.
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