Re: Installing games to a hard-drive

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

"Craig Hulett" <First.Last@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:c05r3t$13f4cd$1@ID-69649.news.uni-berlin.de...
> I'm curious, can an Apple II or IIGS game that doesn't specifically
mention
> that it can be installed on a hard-drive be installed on (and run from)
one?
> For example, Neuromancer. It works fine (but slowly) on my IIGS when
booting
> from the floppy and I wanted to try putting on my hard-drive to speed up
the
> disk access.  Copied it over into a folder and then launched it.  All I
got
> was a blue screen and an odd scrolling message about "corrupted memory"
and
> a possible software bug or bad ram, and I wasn't sure if this was from
> trying to run it from the hard-drive or if something else was going on.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -craig
>
>
I'd be careful when doing stuff like that. I once trashed GS/OS by launching
a disk-based game from a HD. Albeit, it was a demo, but I've had mixed
results when trying to run floppy games from a HD.

-Greg
 P.S. Has anyone gotten Life and Death to run from GS/OS 6.0.1? Things get
kinda crazy when you go into the operating room.