Re: Got CFFA... now what to put on it? ;-)

[Michael Kent <michael@syndicomm.remove.this.com>]

Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote:

> I recently got a CFFA, and to be honest I've, like, totally no idea how
> to fill up even 1x 32MB, let alone 4x 32MB. ;-)

> As regards Apples, I was exclusively a 5.25" person until recently and
> used mostly DOS 3.3, so I've got no knowledge of stuff like program
> selectors, useful little utilities for hard disks, applications that
> need a large drive to work at all, etc. except for things that make
> sense on 5.25" as well.

If you're going to be downloading a large amount of 8-bit data, might I
suggest trying out Davex, written by Dave Lyons of GS System 6 fame?
Davex is an 8-bit shell that sits on top of ProDOS, providing a command
line interface far more useful than BASIC.System.  It provides many of
the common file and text utilities found in a Unix environment, and it
can be expanded by the addition of external commands.

When I upgraded from a II+ to a GS almost twenty years ago, I ran Davex
almost exclusively, even to the point of setting up an external command
to run a bouncy ball demo as a manually activated screen-saver.  I was
able to afford only the GS CPU and had neither the memory nor the storage
space to run GS/OS until a year or two later.

Try it.  I think you'll like it.

Mike