New Print Shop:from 5.25" onto 3.5" discs

[<gwright@poseidon.crosslink.net>]

Last summer a question was posted about transferring the New Print Shop
program from 5.25" discs onto a 3.5" disc. I have been experimenting
with this problem, and have successfully done such a transfer. Here is
how I did it.

First, format the 3.5" disc and name it NPS. Then, create 2 subdirectories
on the disc, whose names should be PS and PSL.DATA3. The PS subdirectory
will be for the program files, and the PSL.DATA3 subdirectory will be for
the graphics, fonts and borders. Now, set the prefix to PSL.DATA3, and
create 4 new subdirectories under PSL.DATA3. These 4 new subdirectories
will be named GRAPHICS, FONTS, BORDERS and USER.

Now you need to copy the program files from the 5.25" discs onto the 3.5"
disc. The program files are on the disc labelled PROGRAM DISC, and are
on both sides of the disc. Copy the files PRODOS and PS.SYSTEM onto the
3.5" disc under the root directory. Copy all the files from both sides
of the disc, with the exception of PRODOS, onto the 3.5" disc under the
subdirectory PS. There will be some duplicates of files on side A and
side B.

Now you need to fix a few bytes in the PS.SYSTEM program. Since this
program was copied into 2 different places on the 3.5" disc, be sure to
fix it in both places. It is easiest to do the fix using a block editor,
such as ZAP in ProSel. However, you could also BLOAD the program, POKE
in the correct values, then BSAVE it back onto disc. Here are the bytes
to be fixed:

$06 & 07 - change to $01
$20 through 27 - change to $07 2F 4E 50 53 2F 50

The first change tells New Print Shop that it does not have to ask you
to flip the disc over for side A or side B to load program modules. The
second change tells New Print Shop that program modules are in the
subdirectory /NPS/PS.

Now you have to put all the New Print Shop graphics, fonts and
borders onto the 3.5" disc. These will all go under the subdirectory
/NPS/PSL.DATA3. They will be found on sides A and B of DATA DISC 1 and
DATA DISC 2. Copy all the files found in the GRAPHICS subdirectories of
both sides of both discs into the /NPS/PSL.DATA3/GRAPHICS subdirectory
on the 3.5" disc.  Copy all the files from the FONTS directory on both
sides of DATA DISC 1 into the /NPS/PSL.DATA3/FONTS subdirectory. Copy
all the files from the BORDERS subdirectory on both sides of DATA DISC 1
into the /NPS/PSL.DATA3/BORDERS subdirectory. The New Print Shop program
has now been transferred from the 5.25" disc to the 3.5" disc.


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Gerry (the Applesoft-aholic)
gwright@crosslink.net