Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!dlyons From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: LAUNCHING BASIC AND OLD 3.3 BINARY PROGRAMS Message-ID: <33448@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 25 Jul 89 04:34:54 GMT References: <55848@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 35 In article <55848@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> writes: > >I have two questions: > >1: Does anyone know where I can find out how to launch BASIC files from GS/OS > (I can't seem to get BASIC.LAUNCHER to work...)? Normally there is an icon in FINDER.ICONS that matches the Applesoft filetype and specifies */BASIC.LAUNCHER as the application to run. Just double-click on an Applesoft program, making sure you have BASIC.LAUNCHER *and* BASIC.SYSTEM at the top level of your boot disk. If this doesn't help, what exactly is happening? >2: also, back on my //e, > I wrote a SYS program in assembler which would load some old 3.3 games I'd > converted to PDos8. This SYS program loaded itself in at $2000, of course, > copied a part of itself over to $300, then proceeded to load in from disk > any BIN file and run it. This worked fine in PDos8 but results in system > crashes when I try it from GS/OS on my //gs. Does anyone know where I can > find out why, or know the answer themselves? It sounds like it ought to work okay. I can't think of a reason for it to crash offhand, so either try giving more details (what does it say, exactly, when it crashes, for example--weird numbers could easily mean something to me), or mail me a disk w/ something I can crash myself (address in my signature). --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.