Re: USCD Pascal on a CFFA drive

[Wulf <apple2@die-kempers.de>]

In the past days I was hunting for information about the Apple Pascal
Attach.
Luckily I found some useful resources online and I have now a better
view on the problem.

> Maybe somebody else recalls what the other .CODE files do.
>
> $ ac -l pascal4.dsk
> pascal4.dsk ATTACH:
> 03-Sep-85 009 CODE SYSTEM.ATTACH
This is needed to attach the attach.drivers during boot of the pascal
system
> 03-Sep-85 014 CODE ATTACHUD.CODE
this is needed to generate the attach.data file which contains the
informations system attach needs to attach the drivers to the pascal
system.
> 03-Sep-85 004 CODE ADMERG.CODE
don't know yet
> 03-Sep-85 004 CODE CONVAD.CODE
> 03-Sep-85 005 CODE SHOWAD.CODE
both above can be used to work on the attach.data files
> 03-Sep-85 003 CODE IM.CODE
don't know
> 11-May-88 006 TEXT README.TEXT
on my copy this just has information about the pascal 1.3 patch
> 11-May-88 010 CODE CONFIRM.CODE
used  it to confirm that the patch has been applied
> 11-May-88 010 CODE PATCH.CODE
guess what, this is the patch :-)
> Pascal format; 104,960 bytes free; 38,400 bytes used.

So far I could compile and run the dual partition hack mentioned in
the AN #14.
I have now a 3.5 disk with two partitions of 800 blocks each.

As it reads at the end of the AN , it should be "easy" to apply this
scheme on hard drives.
Thats my next task. I guess I will face new levels of humiliation by
doing it :-)

The so far final goal would be that it should be possible to have a
driver which can manage  many partitions  just by mapping the start
block numbers to the volumes on the hard disk (or CF card)
However not more than 18 partitions could be open at the same time
(Device slot #12-#20) but this should be just an academical limitation
as you could have 18*77 ~ 1400 files available.

The whole thing starts to be big fun for me ! Thanks to all who put me
on the right track.