Re: GSoft BASIC on 3.5" disk?

[limtc <thyechean@gmail.com>]

Hi,

All these do not seem to be necessary at all, once I followed the
GSoft manual instructions. Basically I can remove away the Start
application and put GSoft.Sys16 on the root, and it still work! I
don't even need to put it in System folder or rename it.

It is quite surprising to me, but it works.

On 5月1日, 下午11时42分, "Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blake...@a2central.com.remove-
it4-this> wrote:
>
> It is possible to install GSoft into the System folder of the 3.5" disk
> as long as the GSoft.Sys16 file ends up in the System folder and not a
> sub folder.  You can then rename GSoft.Sys16 to Start and it will start
> up automatically without needing the Finder or the Control Panel/Set
> Start/Start file combination.
>
> The best thing to do would be for someone to write a Start program to
> put in the System folder that would simply change the prefix to the root
> directory of the boot disk and launch the first file it finds that
> either has a name that ends in ".Sys16" or is of the S16 file type.
>
> Another option would be to have a text file that could be modified with
> the path to the application that the user wants to have started on boot.
> This way you could actually launch an S16 program that is in a folder on
> the boot disk.  It could also open up the ability to put multiple paths
> in the text file so you could have a mini launcher to pick which
> application you wanted to run but that would have limited usefulness as
> you can't get many applications on an 800 KB disk.  :-)
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