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DOS.MASTER VS DOSLauncher 2.2
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Adam Hall
Jul 17, 2008, 4:22:43 PM7/17/08
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I have a CFFA card for my Apple IIe from dreher.net. It is great
product, does everything as advertised. I have gone down the road of
trying to boot some older non-prodos games etc. I am pretty sure,
judging by other posts, that I am not alone in doing trying to do this,
and hopefully my post will help other newbies. I have followed the
directions on both products and have been successfull. Overall I have
found that DOSLauncher 2.2 is the better choice, and would like to get
others views on this as I don't claim to be an expert in all of this
after only playing with both pieces of software for only about a week.
The reason I prefer to use DOSLauncher is simply that at least for me,
it is far easier to go from a disk image of floppy disk to booting it
from my CFFA card. The support of .dsk images like you find on Asimov
makes it very easy. My procedure if I don't feel like pulling the CFFA
card out of the computer and copy the disk image directly to it via of
Ciderpress, is to simply boot into contiki which is installed on the
CFFA, download the disk image from the contiki app called web
downloader to my CFFA drive (this can be a little weird, as you can not
browse the file names or path). I then simply set the launch options
for the disk image from the DOS 3.3 COPIER application (this seemed
critical as all it seems to do is set the filetype to say whether to
slow down to 1mhz but for some reason if this procedure is not done on
a downloaded disk image (not necessary if your ripping a disk), I
noticed some disks would not boot, but would if you ran the DOS 3.3
COPIER on them?!?). Anyway, this makes it fairly easy if a little
boring (if you have lots of disk images to set, it can be laborious to
have to type the name of each one with no wildcards allowed). I then
add the DOS launcher program to my PROSEL menu with an argument of the
disk image. Thats it. I used DOS.MASTER, but I wont go into the
procedures, but found it to be far more difficult to not only get up
and running.
product, does everything as advertised. I have gone down the road of
trying to boot some older non-prodos games etc. I am pretty sure,
judging by other posts, that I am not alone in doing trying to do this,
and hopefully my post will help other newbies. I have followed the
directions on both products and have been successfull. Overall I have
found that DOSLauncher 2.2 is the better choice, and would like to get
others views on this as I don't claim to be an expert in all of this
after only playing with both pieces of software for only about a week.
The reason I prefer to use DOSLauncher is simply that at least for me,
it is far easier to go from a disk image of floppy disk to booting it
from my CFFA card. The support of .dsk images like you find on Asimov
makes it very easy. My procedure if I don't feel like pulling the CFFA
card out of the computer and copy the disk image directly to it via of
Ciderpress, is to simply boot into contiki which is installed on the
CFFA, download the disk image from the contiki app called web
downloader to my CFFA drive (this can be a little weird, as you can not
browse the file names or path). I then simply set the launch options
for the disk image from the DOS 3.3 COPIER application (this seemed
critical as all it seems to do is set the filetype to say whether to
slow down to 1mhz but for some reason if this procedure is not done on
a downloaded disk image (not necessary if your ripping a disk), I
noticed some disks would not boot, but would if you ran the DOS 3.3
COPIER on them?!?). Anyway, this makes it fairly easy if a little
boring (if you have lots of disk images to set, it can be laborious to
have to type the name of each one with no wildcards allowed). I then
add the DOS launcher program to my PROSEL menu with an argument of the
disk image. Thats it. I used DOS.MASTER, but I wont go into the
procedures, but found it to be far more difficult to not only get up
and running.
If anyone else has comments on all this, like perhaps DOS.MASTER is
more compatible, I would love to hear your experience as I am running
both pieces of software.
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