Re: DOS 3.3 programs on a IIgs?

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ktakagi@u.arizona.edu (Koichi Takagi) wrote:

>I have some old DOS 3.3 disks from my //c that I want to use on this
>super-duper IIgs. Some have a "hello" program.
>
>What I do now is:
>Boot the GS in GS System 6.01 (off the Focus HD in Slot 7)
>Go to the control panel and change it to boot from Slot 6.
>Restart from the floppy, run my program
>When I'm done, press ctrl-opt-power to restart to the Control Panel
>Change it to boot from "Scan" so it starts up from the HD.
>
>There's got to be a better way?
>Double-clicking programs on the floppies from the GS finder is not usually
>successful, and I still can't quit from the ones that do work back to
>GS/OS.

Koichi, after reading the "can't do it" followups by the so-called
"experts," it is easy to think that there IS no better way....but there
is.

Everybody ignored the fact that you have a Focus drive, so I went
to the horses mouth (Alltech Electronics) and found that the this
drive supports DOS 3.3!

Follow this link http://www.allelec.com/aplfiles.htm and get a copy
of FocusDOS 3.3 V1.0....guess what it does?  You can set up a
partition where you can have over 100 DOS 3.3 disk images that
can be lauched from the Finder.  It is supposed to be better than
DOS 3.3 Launcher because the disks are not just files....