gyuri@cvl.UUCP (Gyorgy Fekete) (03/09/85)
There once was an article about booting ProDos succesfully on Franklins, and such. Would the person(s) who know how to do this please either post it again or mail to me directly? I have a real Apple, but a weird 16k card, where the F8 ROM is probably different from Apple's. I understand ProDos peeks somewhere > $F800 to see what you've got. Thanks, in advance Gyorgy Fekete gyuri@cvl.arpa Center for Automation Research seismo!rlgvax!cvl!gyuri.uucp Univ. MD College Park MD 20742
dudek@utai.UUCP (Gregory Dudek) (03/12/85)
As far as I have heard, ProDOS looks into the high memory of the F8 ROM and into the ROM on the DISK CONTROLLER. I was NOT under the impression that it looked at (or could look at) the details of the 16k card, except that it existed. In order to use ProDOS with an Apple II clone, you would have to either patch the places where it looks in the cards, or buy gen-u-ine apple cards. Personally, I think this was not such a great decision on Apple's part since it will deter the overall acceptance of ProDOS, but then we've been over this before, haven't we? Greg Dudek
rchau@watrose.UUCP (rchau) (03/13/85)
> As far as I have heard, ProDOS looks into the high memory of the F8 ROM > and into the ROM on the DISK CONTROLLER. I was NOT under the impression > that it looked at (or could look at) the details of the 16k card, except > that it existed. > In order to use ProDOS with an Apple II clone, you would have to either > patch the places where it looks in the cards, or buy gen-u-ine apple > cards. Personally, I think this was not such a great decision on > Apple's part since it will deter the overall acceptance of ProDOS, but > then we've been over this before, haven't we? > Greg Dudek {-------------------------------------------------------------------------} Inscribed within a few bytes of the F8 Rom are the familar words "APPLE II" ..... in keeping up with their promotional slogan of " forever " if these bytes ( which are use at powerup time to display the above) is changes to any other fruit (ie. ORANGE II, PINEAPPLE II, or AL BABY II) Prodos will promptly exit.