Re: Apple II tapes backed up to wav...now what?

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 15 jan, 01:14, Linards Ticmanis <ticma...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> This won't help with programs that load directly into the area where DOS
> or ProDOS normally resides, but I'd assume that since most tapes are
> from an era when many people still had less then 48K RAM, few will load
> into the memory area where DOS resides on a 48K+ system. In the case of
> ProDOS, using LOADER.SYSTEM instead of BASIC.SYSTEM might help, as it
> frees some RAM if I remember correctly.
>
> If the program is a multi loader, you will have to hack it to load the
> other parts from Disk instead of from tape.
>
> --
> Linards Ticmanis

That's right for the upper part of memory but, from my experience,
plenty of cassettes start loading in the keyboard buffer (@ $200)
which make them unusable/unbloadable from any OS.

A load in a safe place then move to the right place in memory is
mandatory there.

antoine