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From: araftis@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Alex Raftis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: System Disk 5.0.3 and two observations
Message-ID: <273a7556.6c5c@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 9 Nov 90 09:22:30 GMT
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In article <8627@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
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>	I sure hope they'll release a program to make EXPRESSLOAD files
>yourself..  Am I correct in believing you can convert a RUNNABLE file
>to Expressload format?? It's not something you do on source code or
>anything like that somehow, is it??  So even ancient old things that
>are relatively well behaved can then be converted to expressload and
>things'll fly.. RIGHT?   {An example of something that's NOT well behaved:
>ANYTHING from Accolade! SHEESH! Their stuff is slow, won't work with
>disk caches (except one special one after they patched their program I
>think), and I believe is a pain in the butt if not impossible to put
>on a hard drive... If Test Drive II was a little faster in gameplay and
>graphics were a little better it would be a very very good game.. now
>it's only ok}
>	Having an Expressload version of something like MicroWings 
>would be neat.. (Heck, it MIGHT be Expressloaded already, I've just tried
>it..)
>-- 

Actually, this program exists, if you've got the APW/Orca M enviroment. All 
you do is crunch the program to convert the load segments to version 2.0 of
the loader files, then run express over it, and bang, you've got an express
load file. This does not work with everything, though. Thexder crashed miser-
ably when I tried it, but Deluxe Paint II ran beuatifully. In fact, it always
launches from the 5.0+ finder now. Not even one crash.




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