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Re: "Eagle Software GraphExt" ?

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:



On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Steve Nickolas wrote:
I've come across this on a couple disks and isolated 3 different versions of it. It's a weird, heavily hacked DOS 3.3, apparently from Russia or Bulgaria.
Bulgaria. Doesn't it have "Orlin Shopov" when doing "DIR", or somewhere embedded? 

It's the same as CATALOG:

EAGLE SOFTWARE GRAPHEXT 2.8
___________________________

SLOT 6  DRIVE 1  VOLUME 254
followed by a normal catalog and a free sector count. The type which DOS 3.3 reports as "Alternate B", and my own hacks report as "O" (for Other), is called G here. 


I believe this guy runs:
http://eagle.bg/eng/


Anyone heard of this, know anything about it?


My most used fast DOS at the time.
Is a little bigger than normal fast DOSes - both in memory and on disk. Prints track/sector/op in inverse.
I noticed. And different versions show it in different places or in different formats.
2.9 and 3.0 also beep around when I hit the keys. (Which is why I tend to prefer the 2.8 I dug off the disk image that comes with Appler.)
They also seem to have ONERR TRY AGAIN built into them. (Nice feature, though I'm not exactly a fan.) 


"INIT" only rewrites DOS, does not format.


I... *cough* noticed that.
The interesting thing about it is it has built-in support for crunched graphics. I was just experimenting with the capability. 

"GLOAD" / "GSAVE", produce 'G' files.

"DIR" just like "CATALOG".

"-" starts any file.


Ah, like ProDOS?
There was also "SOUND", IIRC. Perhaps something like "SOUND Apitch,Lduration". 

Ah.  I noticed the command, didn't know how it worked.


Just curious, Steve, where did you find it?
There's a 2.9 on Asimov. 2.8's in the disk image that comes with the "Appler" emulator (one of the devs was in Bulgaria, which would prolly explain the use of a Bulgarian DOS). 3.0 is in a file called "Basic_Pravetz.dsk". I'm pretty sure I've seen a 2.7 somewhere but can't find it (my Apple ][ folder is a MESS). 

Here would prolly be the files in question:

ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/emulators/misc/appler.zip
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/productivity/misc/Eagle%20Graphext%20DOS%202.9.dsk
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/masters/Basic_Pravetz.dsk

(And I know a little about the Pravetz line, though not much at all.)

-uso.