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Subject: Re: F16 Falcon on hard disk
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Date: 5 Jun 89 16:15:37 GMT
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From: Montgomery Kosma <kosma@ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM>
Subject: Re: F16 Falcon on hard disk
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In article <40713@bbn.COM> David Nye <dnye@bbn.com> writes:
 
    I would like to be added to this list also.  I copied every file and did the
    assigns of Falcon Disk 1 and 2 and it still Wants one of the disks in DF0:
    What gives??
 
 
A while back I ran across a file on peoplelink which described how to
set up Falcon on a hard disk, and it said (and it was right) that
although the program will look for a disk in df0:, it does NOT have to
be falcon!  Try putting a BLANK disk in df0:...it should load (much
faster than off the floppies).  
 
It is rather strange that Falcon's documentation alludes to being able
to install it on a hard disk, but when I called up the company I was
told that hard disk installation was not possible on the amiga due to
copy protection.  Obviously it IS possible to install it on a hard disk,
but why the df0: access?  Isn't it about time that game manufacturers
(esp. those who protect their software using a keyword from the manual)
provide software which is easily installed on a hard disk?  I know that
on the *BM, since so many users have hard disks, games often come with a
script file or something to install themselves on the hard disk.
Hopefully, now that hard disks are becoming more commonplace on amiga
systems, manufacturers will take this into account.
 
Finally, has anybody heard anything about data disks or anything for
Falcon?  
 
 
Monty Kosma