Re: Availability of dos 3.3 system disk

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <94r7fj$2j2$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
Rubywand  <rubywand@my-deja.com> wrote:
 
>> I got my self a couple of Apple II's and try to fix them up again. Is
>> there somewhere a reference to these patches to "make" such
>> speed-improved DOS 3.3 versions myself (all disks that i have seem to
>> be "original" DOS 3.3)?
>>
> 
>      If you have the 'old' DOS 3.3, you can use Beagle's Prontodos
> Update disk to change the DOS to Prontodos. You can find the Prontodos
> disk plus some info about using it on TikTok at ...
> 
> http://abandonwarering.com/tiktok/ (click on "System").
> 
> 
>      The Prontodos Update disk boots Prontodos and it can INIT new
> Prontodos disks just like regular DOS 3.3 can. (In fact, Prontodos is
> mainly DOS 3.3; not all that much is changed.)
 
Another thing you could do is to download
 
    http://hotel04.ausys.se/pausch/apple2/Apple.Assembly.Line.zip
 
and from that file extract the DOS 3.3 disk image AAL_3.DSK, which contains:
 
     A 002 HELLO
    *I 042 CATALOG ARRANGER
    *I 010 APPLE-TALKER
    *I 010 EVEN FASTER PRIMES.2
    *I 006 APPLESOFT LOCATOR
    *I 012 APPLESOFT REPEAT/UNTIL
    *I 011 INTERNAL JMP/JSR'S
    *I 005 MONITOR BIT-CONTROL
    *I 005 CLEAR ASOFT STRING ARRAY
    *I 008 APPLESOFT SPLIT STRING
    *A 002 SPLIT STRING DEMO
    *I 043 CATARR
    *I 023 FNAME.EDITOR
    *I 013 SUPER FAST SCROLLER
    *I 025 STRING ADDITION
    *I 003 ALARM
    *I 006 MACRO-VIDEX ESC-L & MORE
    *I 024 TRAPPER
    *I 011 ALL ABOUT PTRGET & GETARYPT
    *A 002 DEMO PTRGET & GETARYPT
    *I 003 MACROS CAN BUILD MACROS
    *I 005 MX-80 TEXT SCREEN DUMP
    *I 007 MX-80 TEXT SCREEN DUMP +
    *I 005 DIVIDE 8-BIT BY 4-BIT
    *I 006 DIVIDE 16/16 & 32/16 BIT
    *I 005 DIVIDE 32 BY 16 BIT
    *I 006 DIVIDE 32 BY 16 WITH TRACE
    *I 007 DOS FAST LOAD/BLOAD
    *A 003 INSTALL DOS FAST LOAD/BLOAD
    *I 003 SELF-ALIGNING ORG MACRO
    *I 042 DATE PROCESSING
    *I 007 GENERAL PATCH INSTALLER
    *I 013 DISPLAY CHARACTER SET
    *I 006 S-C MACRO PAUSE DIRECTIVE
    *I 014 FIND ADDRESS REFERENCE
    *I 007 GENERATING/CHECKING PARITY
    *I 012 SPIRAL CLEAR
    *I 006 BINARY-TO-DECIMAL
    *I 006 AMPERSAND MONITOR CALLER
    *I 010 DOS FAST TEXT R/W (P.S.)
    *I 008 FAST TEXT R/W (P.S.+BOB S-C)
    *A 016 MINI-ASSEMBLER IN APPLESOFT
    *I 005 NEW MONITOR ASCII DUMP.1
    *I 006 NEW MONITOR ASCII DUMP.2
 
 
The "DOS FAST LOAD/BLOAD" and "INSTALL DOS FAST LOAD/BLOAD" contains
the S-C Assembler source for the DOS patch plus an Applesoft program
which loads it, patching your 48K DOS 3.3 in-place.  You can then use
that patched DOS 3.3 to INIT another disk, and it will have fast
load/bload on the system tracks.
 
If you want to speed up text file read/write as well, check out
"DOS FAST TEXT R/W (P.S.)" and "FAST TEXT R/W (P.S.+BOB S-C)"
 
Note that you'll need the S-C Assembler to assemble these source
files.  It too is freely available from:
 
    http://hotel04.ausys.se/pausch/apple2
 
 
 
(if that site is down today, try again a little later.  They're doing
some LAN work there right now, and it'll soon be back up again)
 
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