Re: Installing games to a hard-drive

["Craig Hulett" <First.Last@attbi.com>]

Bill Garber wrote:
> Craig Hulett 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.
>
> Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)

Thanks for the reply, Bill.  That's what I was afraid of. Neuromancer is
ProDOS based and I did exactly what you said, dragged the floppy icon to the
partition and put it in a folder named the same as the floppy.  Guess I'm
gonna have to dig deeper into what may be going on with my system.

-craig