Re: USCD Pascal on a CFFA drive

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

John B. Matthews <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article 
> <8c76f473-9df4-4400-8a53-f0b391794a9d@u34g2000yqu.googlegroups.com>,
>  Wulf <apple2@die-kempers.de> wrote:
> 
> > A little update .
> > I work currently the Technical Note #16 (Two pascal volumes on a 3.5
> > disk)
> > 
> > Now I am stuck as I have no clue how to generate the ATTACH.DRIVERS
> > and ATTACH.DATA files.
> > 
> > The TN is referencing to Apple II Pascal Device and Interrupt Support
> > Tools.
> > Could some one send me a copy of this?.
> > 
> > It would be a great help if someone could explain how to generate
> > the .drivers and .data files
> > 
> > Maybe I should move the tread to comp.sys.apple2.programmers?
> > 
> > So far it has been fun to investigate.
> 
> On the volume named ATTACH: is a an executable named ATTACHUD.CODE that
> asks for the driver name and options; it then writes a data file for 
> subsequent use by SYSTEM.ATTACH.
> 
> Call-APPLE and APDA used to sell it as a product using a name like 
> ATTACH-BIOS. I seem to recall that it included some documentation, but I
> can't find it.

Byte Works was selling Apple II Pascal 1.3 around 1990 as an APDA
product. I'm pretty sure it included the attach tools and may have
included documentation. Mine is buried in boxes and would be rather a
lot of work to unearth.

Who ended up with all of the APDA stuff and are they still allowed to
sell it?

> Maybe somebody else recalls what the other .CODE files do.
> 
> $ ac -l pascal4.dsk 
> pascal4.dsk ATTACH:
> 03-Sep-85 009 CODE SYSTEM.ATTACH 
> 03-Sep-85 014 CODE ATTACHUD.CODE 
> 03-Sep-85 004 CODE ADMERG.CODE 
> 03-Sep-85 004 CODE CONVAD.CODE 
> 03-Sep-85 005 CODE SHOWAD.CODE 
> 03-Sep-85 003 CODE IM.CODE 
> 11-May-88 006 TEXT README.TEXT 
> 11-May-88 010 CODE CONFIRM.CODE 
> 11-May-88 010 CODE PATCH.CODE 
> Pascal format; 104,960 bytes free; 38,400 bytes used.


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David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz