basilisk@spica.ucsb.edu (Can't touch this...) (06/03/91)
I recently bought some Apple II programs dirt cheap and have been trying to get them to run from my GS's hard drive without much luck. I was able to copy the files from the pascal disks, but how are you supposed to launch the things? Also, one of the programs I bought was Bard's Tale III. I copied it to the hard drive with no problem, but when it asks for a character disk, it can't find it and crashes. Anyone know what's up with this? Finally, can Wizardry V be run from my hard drive? Thanks in advance! -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= | Basilisk, who is he? Basilisk, what is he? | Ed Jordan | | Basilisk,Ba-basilisk, where does he come from?| basilisk@cornu.ucsb.edu | =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) (06/03/91)
In article <11782@hub.ucsb.edu> basilisk@cornu.ucsb.edu writes: >I recently bought some Apple II programs dirt cheap and have been >trying to get them to run from my GS's hard drive without much luck. >I was able to copy the files from the pascal disks, but how are you >supposed to launch the things? Also, one of the programs I bought was >Bard's Tale III. I copied it to the hard drive with no problem, but >when it asks for a character disk, it can't find it and crashes. >Anyone know what's up with this? Finally, can Wizardry V be run from >my hard drive? Thanks in advance! Just a really quickie answer. I may answer more in depth later. You have to make a Pascal partition on your hard drive. You have to have some sort of a hard drive partitioning program that can make a Pascal partition. That is, to run things like Wizardry. I don't even know if Wizardry will work from a hard drive, but I am virtually positive they're all in Pascal. (I know that the first few did a "screen clear" in a strange way that was indicative of being a Pascal program). It sounds as if you just tried to copy the files themselves with Chameleon or somesuch similar program. That won't work. You probably have to run a ProDOS 8 based program (maybe even DOS 3.3!) to switch current partitions. -- /unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu Apple IIGS Forever! unknown@cats.ucsc.edu\ |WANT to help get ULTIMA VI //e or GS written?-mail me. CHEAP CD info-mail me.| \ It's a Late Night World.... Of Love /