Re: HFS Patch & Golden Orchard, Golden Orchard Vol. 2?!?, etc.

[ntt@dove.mtx.net.au (Jonathon Pratt)]

Robert Rivkin (rrivkin@umbc.edu) wrote:
: On 13 Dec 1995, RUBYWAND wrote:

: > In article <Pine.SGI.3.91.951212134423.4990A-100000@umbc7.umbc.edu>,
: > Robert Rivkin <rrivkin@umbc.edu> wrote:
: > 
: > >I seem to have missed the end of a thread a while back:  Can the Golden 
: > >Orchard Disk be played on an NEC  disk player with the NEC driver?  If 
: > >not, is there any way to play the GO disk on my NEC drive?

If you can use the CD Drive with your GS, then most CD's will work. By 
this I mean that 	i) you use a RamFAST, or
			ii) you have another SCSI card and a driver.


: >    It should play just fine. I'm using an NEC CDR-210P connected to a
: > RAMfast D with the RF.NEC driver and the Bazyar/Lyons patched HFS.FST FST.
: > GO shows up just as advertised with LOTS of neat stuff (games, utilities,
: > fonts, pics, ...).

This is a very misleading statement. The RF.NEC driver is for the Media 
Control control panel to allow you to play audio CD's (or CD's with an 
audio track) from the GS. It has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or 
not you can make use of CD ROMs. But if you want to listen to music...

: Well, I know it _should_ play just fine.  It just doesn't appear!  I have 
: no trouble seeing/using the Auge disk, nor any problem with other CDs.  
: Anyone else have this problem?

I have a RamFAST rev d and a CD SC 300e (I also used a NEC CDR37 with the 
RamFAST) and have not ever had any trouble reading the GO CD.

I did however have problems with another CD which I had burnt for my own 
purposes. It contained 630 Mb of copyrighted software (from my own 
collections ==> all the resource central, softdisk, orca (etc) software I 
own) but would not show up on the desktop. I could read it on the mac 
fine, but not the GS until I patched the HFS.FST (as per the currently 
circulating patch courtesy Jawaid). Now it shows up fine, and I have a 
(more) permanant archive of my software. A friend of mine also could not 
read that CD on his GS (HS SCSI & CD SC 150) until he also patched his FST.

You can try to patch your HFS.FST, but I doubt that that will work since 
you should still see the ProDOS partition on the CD (the first one) even 
if the HFS.FST is the problem.

cheers
ntt@dove