lm03_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Larry Moss) (12/06/88)
I've been using DOS 3.3 for years on my Franklin Ace 1000. Since most of the software I've been using runs on DOS 3.3 (including stuff I've written) I never bothered to switch over to ProDOS. I do have ProDOS, and have used it for a few things, but recently I've needed to work with it a lot more. The problem I have is that for some reason ProDOS will not boot on my Franklin. It is possible for me to get it running when I have to, it's just very annoying. Does anyone know why it does this? -Larry
c60c-3aw@e260-3d.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) (12/06/88)
In article <446@ur-cc.UUCP> lm03_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Larry Moss) writes: >The problem I have is that for some reason ProDOS will not >boot on my Franklin. It is possible for me to get it running >when I have to, it's just very annoying. Does anyone know >why it does this? Haven't heard this for so long I had almost forgotten about it... It doesn't work because Apple Computer decided to have ProDOS check what kind of machine it was running on. If it decides it's on a Franklin, it dies. It's a one or two byte patch, but I don't have it with me. >-Larry -- fadden@zen.berkeley.edu [crashed] c60c-3aw@widow.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun NCAA) (12/06/88)
Using a backup copy of your disk and a disk editor do the following search
and replace.
FIND REPLACE
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$AE $B3 $FB $AE $EA $EA
$69 $0B $D0 $03 $69 $0B $EA $EA
(Patches are a courteousy of David Dlugiewicz. Captured from the National Apple
echo in early October of this year)
(( I believe the intent of these patches is to diasble ProDOS8' check of the
characters 'APPLE ][' in the monitor rom and force ProDOS8 into believing that
it is on a particular machine [usually an Apple //plus].))
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