Re: GS emmulator

[Daniel Webster <dwebster@monmouth.com>]

Walter C Hsueh wrote:
> 
> On 17 Jan 1997, matthew p. conte wrote:
> 
> > |     The only one I know of is XGS. Someone has ported the Unix program
> > | to run under Windows, though from what I can see, it's far from being
> > | complete. The most I was able to do was start-up the software based
> > | Apple IIgs (the standard text splash screen appeared) and get as far
> > | as a blinking Applesoft BASIC cursor. Still, just seeing that medium
> >
> > it's been ported to win32 and MacOS...  a surprising amount of software
> > =does= run on it; Nucleus, Zany Golf, Uninvited, Shadowgate, Bubble Ghost,
> > Silpheed, Thexder, etc...  and pretty much all of the dos 3.3 apple ][
> > games...
> 
> Know how to mount disk images properly?  Every time I try to boot
> a 3.5" disk image, I get "I/O Error"
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Walter

I was having the same problem.  What I did was to create a 800K GS/OS
startup disk image then on the XGS starting screen I loaded it in the
slot labled SMPT0 (BOOT).  This got me to the GS/OS desktop.