Re: Problems running Basic.system on hard drive

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

David de Sosa (dmds@msg.ti.com) wrote:
: I have  GS/OS 6.01 on a hard drive with a Ramfast rev C 3.01c card.  When I
: click on the Basic.system icon, the Basic logo screen appears but there is no
: cursor (Basic ver 1.5).  If I hit return, then the applesoft cursor ']' 
: appears.  If I type in a small basic program and run it, it prints out to the 
: screen as if the 'trace' command has been activated.  If I type 'notrace' the 
: output to screen acts normally.  When I am ready to exit Basic, typing 'BYE' 
: crashes the system into the monitor mode every time.  If I boot GS/OS from the 
: system disk, I have none of these problems.
: The only difference between the hard drive and disk is that the hard drive 
: must be utilizing the Ramfast driver file.  I have no file called 'startup'
: or anything else unusual that I am aware of that could be conflicting with
: Basic.system.  

: Help! 

: What can I do to fix this irritating problem?

It sounds more like you've got a corrupted version of Basic.System
on your hard drive.  Try recopying it over to the hard drive.  Also,
you may want to invest in the newer version of the RamFast ROMs.
They're not TOO expensive, and you'll get rid of any other bugs the
older ROMs may be causing.

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