Re: Installing games to a hard-drive

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"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

That sounds like something else is afoot.
However, generally when I copy a full floppy
to hard drive, I simply drag the floppy's icon
to the partition I want it on and tell it to
copy it to a folder of the same name as the
disk. Try renaming the folder to the exact
name as the disk volume and it should work ok.
Remember DOS 3.3 disks will usually have problems
on a hard drive, especially if the program keeps
trying to access the floppy.

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