Re: HELP - Emulator Newbie - SHK and BXY files

[chris@CosmicWolf.com (Chris Morse)]

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 23:03:38 +1200, "Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com>
wrote:

<SNIP>
>I can't help with your other questions as I've never used Oasis (although
>you seem to be doing fairly well so far :), but in ShrinkIt if you press
>return in a file list it will just extract the file the selection bar is on.
>You can press the space bar to select/deselect files from the list, or press
>open apple-A to select all files. These and other commands are listed in the
>about screen.

Hi Roger!

Thanks!  That definitely makes life easier..  I'm trying to get the
hang of this and I'm a *little* impatient, I think.  But I'm
determined.

Can you help with another (probably) easy Question?
How do I read a text file in either DOS 3.3 or ProDOS?
I can't remember that far back! =)  I need some sort of text viewing
program, I'm sure, but what should I use or what would you recommend?

Here's what I had to do for the TANK game I mentioned:

- Download TANK.SHK from the web page, saved to my HD
- Used Apple Oasis Emu to copy TANK.SHK into a ProDOS .DSK file
- Booted ShrinkIt, and extracted the TANK.SHK files to a ProDOS disk
- Used Apple Oasis Emu to copy the game files to a DOS 3.3 disk

Wow- Cool, the Apple Oasis EMU lets me easily select and copy text;
here's the CATALOG for the TANK game:

]CATALOG

DISK VOLUME 254

 A 002 HELLO
*A 053 TANK.COMBAT
 A 019 TANK.COMBAT.INS
 B 004 TANK.S
 T 002 TANK.START

I assume that TANK.START is a text file explaining how to start it??
So far, I can't figure out how to read the file under DOS 3.3..

Thanks for all your help!
// CHRIS


>Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
>
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