Re: Availability of dos 3.3 system disk

[Ralf Quint <ralf_quint@hotmail.com>]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:03:16 GMT, Rubywand <rubywand@my-deja.com>
wrote:

>Ralf Quint <ralf_quint@hotmail.com> writes ...
> ....
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>>
>> 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.)
>
>     So, instead of updating existing disks, you can create new
>Prontodos disks and copy the files from the regular DOS 3.3 disks. This
>way, it does not matter what version of DOS 3.3 is on a source disk.
>
>     For example, after booting the Prontodos Update disk, you could
>exit Beagle's program, swap in a blank disk and enter
>
>INIT HELLO
>
>
>Note: By the way, if you CATALOG a disk before INITing it and you get
>garbage or no CATALOG at all, be sure to stick in a good DOS 3.3 disk
>and CATALOG it. When DOS 3.3 (and Prontodos) do an INIT, part of the
>information used for the new disk comes from memory where CATALOG info
>is placed. If you CATALOG a disk which does not give you a decent
>looking CATALOG display just before doing an INIT, messed up info will
>be placed on the INITed disk and it probably will not work correctly.
>
>
>     After INITing the disks, you can delete the HELLO program which
>will be placed on each. (It will be whatever BASIC program is currently
>in memory.)
>
>     You can use Copy II Plus or some other file copy utility to copy
>files from the old DOS 3.3 disks to the newly INITed Prontodos disks.
>
>
>
>Rubywand
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