Re: Launching files from CFFA

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-8pn-this>]

  To: Payton Byrd
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:57:17 -0600, "Payton Byrd"
<plbyrd@bellsouth.no.spam.net> wrote:

>Anyways, I've downloaded the big old arnold archive and have put
>dozens of programs on my CFFA, but running them is a real pain from
>the ProDOS boot disk.  Has anyone created a good menuing system
>launching applications from a ProDOS volume?  It would be really cool
>if there's a program out there that would scan the entire volume for
>apps and then present them in a list.  Select the app and it'll run.

I wrote a program selector in Applesoft years ago called Selector
v1.0.  I think I only every uploaded it to Ground and possibly Delphi
but I don't think those archives aren't available anymore.  The
archive isn't currently on the disk images of my hard drive partitions
here on my PC so I imagine I copied it onto a floppy some time ago and
as my real IIgs is currently in pieces (looking for the best place to
set it back up at present) I can't go through my collection of archive
floppies to find it.

If I get my IIgs set back up soon and find that archive I'll let you
know.  Oh, it requires an 80 column screen but should work on an
unenhanced IIe and possibly even a II+ but I've never tried it.

This is the program launcher I wrote that would give me the option to
disable ProDOS' memory protection of the text screen so that programs
that tried to load into that area when I launched them wouldn't give
me a NO BUFFERS AVAILABLE error.  Has some sort options for the list
of files too.

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