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Re: Old games --> DOS 3.3 --> DOS 3.3 Launcher on GS



In article <1992Nov7.084024.21269@zip.eecs.umich.edu> grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas) writes:
>Recently I have been playing a little with John MacLean's great little
>program "DOS 3.3 Launcher".  Unfortunatly, all of the stuff I am trying
>to convert to it does NOT seem to be DOS 3.3.
>
>Most of this stuff is old games that would be great fun if I could just
>luanch them from GS/OS and play them for a bit, then quit back to GS/OS
>without re-booting.  Things like Arcticfox, Alternate Reality, Seven Cities
>of Gold, Airheart, Lode Runner, and others...
>
>Many of these seem to be ALMOST a correct DOS 3.3, but have some sort
>of difference that makes them unreadable as DOS 3.3.   Copy II+ can make
>copies of the disks themselves (sometimes even remove the protection)
>but they still seem to be wierd variants to normal DOS 3.3.
>
>Does anybody have a method for turning these into normal DOS 3.3 images?
>Grover Thomas                   InterNet:  grover@emunix.emich.edu  (__�

Certainly not automatically.
I have both Lode Runner (including chapionship) and Airheart on my hard disk
(and yes, I own the original software) as files which I can quit from back
to the finder.