Re: -> Advice needed: drive & //gs

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <37eaqi$1g7@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> cvotter@prairienet.org (Gary
Sutton) writes:
>There are alternatives to the Finder out there.  I think there
>are several available on cco.caltech.edu.  Also, if I remember
>correctly, the system software comes with something called Basic
>Launcher or something like that.  It was originally included
>with the old 256K GS systems.  To have it launch instead of the
>Finder, rename the Finder to something other than Start, put
>Basic.Launcher in whatever directory the Finder is in, and rename
>it Start.

Current versions of GSOS don't include BASIC.LAUNCHER, since its
functionality was incorporated directly into the ProDOS 8 startup code.

If you really want a GSOS disk to boot into BASIC, make sure the disk has
no "Start" file in the System folder, and that the first .SYSTEM file in
the root directory is BASIC.SYSTEM.

Generally, though, it's better to just make an ordinary ProDOS 8 boot disk,
since it will boot a LOT faster.  Copy the file "P8" from the System folder
of your GSOS disk to the root directory of your new disk, and rename it
"PRODOS".  Then copy BASIC.SYSTEM onto the new disk.

               - Neil Parker
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