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1 total messages Started by an1448 Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:02

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Author: an1448
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:02

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One of the biggest problems I have found (as we all have)
was swapping disks inside the apple II emulator....
 
 
I BELIEVE I HAVE FOUND THE SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM!!!!
 
now, my results have been erratic but they have been successful
 
1) load up SHARE.EXE (this should come with your dos package)
2) get a file from the msdos/desqview directory of simtel or
it's mirrors called close101.zip (and files008.zip)
 
now here is the tricky part (I do this with desqview but it costs
money so...) get SOME task switcher that will allow you to get
to a dos prompt while the emulator is idle and asking you to
insert another disk into drive A......
 
type close (image file name)
copy (nextdisk) (image file name)
 
ex:
you have disk1.dsk and disk2.dsk
 
you boot from disk1.dsk and the emulator is asking for disk2.dsk
 
you switch away, type close disk1.dsk and copy disk2.dsk over disk1.dsk,
switch back to the emulator, press a key and the next disk should load
with no problems.
 
the problem all along was that the first image was never closed so
JUST copying the file over the first disk image does no good......
 
btw: files008.zip shows all open files (handy util to have anyway)
 
like I said, I have done this only with desqview (switching windows
after jumping to the debugger) but it SHOULD work under windows
and other similer programs. I have yet to find a good shareware
task switcher that will work with the emulator (if you have one, LET ME
KNOW PLEASE!!!) enjoy all.... questions comments flames PLEASE!
 
BT
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