Index Last Updated: Thu Sep 18 10:57:25 2003
Parent Directory at Master Site:
http://www.gno.org/pub/apple2/prodos/utils
Current Directory at Master Site:
http://www.gno.org/pub/apple2/prodos/utils/launchers
Current Directory:
/pub/apple2/prodos/utils/launchers
Most files are available by three methods. The file name link downloads files from the server you are currently on using the HTTP protocol. The HTTP and FTP links following the file name will retrieve the file from the master Trenco archive using the HTTP or FTP protocols, respectively.
QLabs' EasyDrive. A suite of 8-bit software for hard drive maintanence. Includes a program launcher, backup and optimizer software, as well as file maintanence software. This is a symbolic link to ../file.disk/easydrive.shk
GEOS deskTop is a desktop-style graphical operating system for 8-bit Apples. GEOS uses the DHR graphics screen for its display. Included are GEOWrite, GEOPaint, GEOSpell, GEODictionary, and several desk accesories that run under GEOS. There are also demos of GEOCalc, GEOFile, and GEOPublish. GEOS can be installed on a hard drive or other large capacity drive using the included utility. Originally from Berkely Softworks, the current copyright holder, Breadbox Computer Co., has reclassified the Apple version of GEOS as freeware.
This program allows you to transfer any ProDOS disk to any other ProDOS device of equal or greater size. The instructions explain, for example, how to copy GS/OS to /RAM5 on the IIgs. Written by Erick Bush of Kitchen Sink Software. This is a symbolic link to ../copy/kickstart.shk
ReadMe-type information about the kickstart archive. This is a symbolic link to ../copy/kickstart.txt
A collection of disk launchers assembled by Howard Katz for NAUG. Contains: ABFS, BDS.Select, Boot-520, Menu-II, and ProBoot.
A collection of disk launchers assembled by Howard Katz for NAUG. Contains: QuixElect2, Selector, and SMaster.
ProBOOT 1.0.1 is a ProDOS 8 enhancement that lets you pop up a menu for choosing a disk drive to boot from when you start up (or reboot) your Apple II, by holding down the Open Apple key.
ProSEL 8 by Glen Bredon. ProSEL is the Swiss Army Knife of Apple II utility programs. Its main screen is a customizable program launcher, but it has many other disk and file based utilities including disk recovery, backup, file copiers, block editors, and many others. This is the 8 bit version. For the 16 bit version, see ../../../gs.specific/utils/launchers.
This is a program selector for pre-1.9 versions of ProDOS-8. Apple incorporated the 'look-and-feel' of Squirt-8 into ProDOS-8 version 1.9.
SYSTEM.II is an 8-bit desktop-style system manager for the //c, //e or the GS in 8-bit mode. Files and drives are represented by icons, and can be chosen with just a keypress. Some utilities are included with the program, including: copy file, copy disk, rename, unlock, delete, format, restart, and shutdown. The program includes a built-in screen saver. The user can set parameters such as full or abbreviated menus, setting the system clock speed for accelerated machines, and have the choice of the keyboard, joystick or mouse as the input device. Other options include the choice of what slot to boot from, security settings, access to the GS Control Panel, as well as setting what files to automatically run at startup as well as shutdown. This archive can be copied to either multiple 5.25" disks, a single 800k disk, or any ProDOS compatible hard drive. Originally published by Kitchen Sink Software, System II has been released as Freeware by the Copyright holder, Eric Bush, via The Lost Classics Project. (Please see the FREEWARE.TXT file in the archive.)