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Re: USCD Pascal on a CFFA drive
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<d7dd26b9-dc3a-4cc4-9316-87417b56916f@z4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
Wulf <apple2@die-kempers.de> wrote:
> > I used the built-in Pascal Filer tools to format and copy over the
> > files from floppies. My memory has faded somewhat on this operation
> > and I'm not sure which unit mapped to which slot. It does not see
> > partitions the same way ProDOS does - it just sees one (less than
> > 32MB) device and uses it. I think 1.2 came with a tool to create a
> > big file on a ProDOS partition that could be used as a Pascal area but
> > I've never investigated it. Running Pascal on a CFFA was the single
> > biggest performance improvement you can make. Compiles become quite
> > snappy, more like an IDE than the painful excursion into floppy
> > exercising it used to be.
> >
> > Dave...
>
> Dave,
> I have no luck with the Apple Pascal Filer, but I made progress. I
> used Prodos8 to format the CF card partition with Pascal FS and
> copied the Apple1: files to it. It resists to boot "This Disk is not
> bootablez" but if I run Apple Pascal from Disk, it recognizes the
> disk and I can read and write from it. Any Idea why it does not boot?
> I would not really mind to boot from Floppy but the compilation and
> the work file should be on the CF card.
Apple System Utilities can format a Pascal disk and transfer files, but
the boot block it writes produces the message you observe. You can
eXecute APPLE3:FORMATTER to write a real boot block to the CF card, then
copy your files over using the Pascal Filer.
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John B. Matthews
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<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>