Re: How to format 800K boot disk for GS

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On Aug 18, 10:39 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:

> Well, you wouldn't, really.  If you're talking about Deja Vu II from

Right web site, wrong game :) I am talking about Deja Vu. I never
finished it on the Amiga, and I want to finish the first one before I
start the second one. Seems that nobody ever cared enough about this
game to image the Amiga version.

> you can run under most GS emulators that will boot GSOS and also the
> game.

Thanks for that, I don't know how I missed it.

> Incidentally, to format a 3.5" disk to boot, you need a ProDOS
> utilities disk.  You use the utilities to format it, then copy PRODOS
> and BASIC.SYSTEM to it - then it becomes bootable.  But there's no
> built-in "INIT HELLO" sort of thing in ProDOS land.

I think the reason I never graduated to ProDOS back in the 1980s is
because I was using school and university computers and had no manuals
- I knew how to use DOS 3.3 because everyone else knew how to use it
and told me, but nobody really picked up ProDOS. I started on IIs and
IIes at wherever my father was going to university, and then graduated
to IIcs at school. As part of my vintage collection I did briefly own
a IIgs system, but I never even powered it on (no software).