User`s guide

For a good on-line listing of PEEKs, POKEs, pointers, and CALLs, see the
comp.sys.apple2.programmer FAQs:
html- http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/csa2pfaq.html#004
text- ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/apple2/programmerfaq/part1
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From: Rubywand
006- How can I boot a good GS System with no hard disk?
You can boot a decent System 5.0.4 or very modest System 6.0.1 from a 3.5"
diskette. With two 3.5" drives, you can boot a decent System 6.0.1; but, disk
swapping becomes a significant hassle when you want to run most
applications.
A much better solution is available if you have a 4MB mem expansion card
installed. (Actually, you can make do with about 2.5MB of RAM.) You can use a
utility named "Flash Boot" by Jerry Kindall. Flash Boot auto-loads System from
one or more 3.5" diskettes to /RAM5 RAM disk and boots it.
What you do is create a large enough /RAM5 to hold the System you want to
boot. Next, you boot System as usual from diskette(s) and use the Flash Boot
utility to prepare /RAM5 and install the auto-loader. Then, you copy the stuff
you want to auto-load to /RAM5 and use the Flash Boot utility to create one or
more 3.5" "image disks".
To install and boot System you start by booting from the first image
diskette and feed in any others as prompted. System then boots from /RAM5 and
works very much as though it were on hard disk.
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007- Can I do Reverse Speech on my IIgs?
Yes. Sound Studio and Sound Shop are two utilities which allow loading and
reversing sound samples.
(ref. David John Oates; http://www.reversespeech.com/ )
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008- Is it possible to run PaintWorks from hard disk?
Will it load files from an HFS partition?
The Kzin Warrior published a block edit patch version in Computist #73
which lets you do this, at least on a ROM-01 GS. Using ProSel's Zap utility
(also called "Block Warden") you search for $C9 08 00 D0 CE on the PaintWorks
Gold diskette or a copy. (I found these bytes in Block $3D5 starting at byte
$1DF.) Change the 08 to 7F and save the change.