Re: Autoloader for GSOS

[clay1@primenet.com (Clayburn Juniel/Effective Software Solutions)]

Joseph Turner (jturner@tartarus.uwa.edu.au) wrote:

:    Hello, I use System 5.04 on my IIgs and at the moment I have only one 
: 3,5 drive. Now I have 4megs of Ram and I would like to pre-load the 
: system into ram and then boot from the ram. I was wondering if there is 
: anyone who could give me a few hints. I tried using an autoload file(in 
: prodos 8) in con-junction with an executable text file. Unfortunately the 
: copy program could not cope with the forks. So does anybody have any 
: ideas/ Any help will be much appreciated.

Joe,

It looks like I have just the program you need.  Its called First Start.  
When your computer boots it moves the files from your system disk to ram 
and then boots from ram.  It can be located on GEnie and at my own FTP 
site (mentioned in sig below).  

 -- Clay

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