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Re: Launching files from CFFA

"Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-8pn-this> wrote in message tkl3u2t661pnf00qi02lmgc5s5sqe1gtsf@4ax.com">news:tkl3u2t661pnf00qi02lmgc5s5sqe1gtsf@4ax.com...
:   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.


Here's your 'Selector 1.0' program, Jeff.

http://www.garberstreet.com/Apple2/Zips/select10.gz

William Garber
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