Bootable DOS 3.3 disks

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

To create a DOS 3.3 disk which is bootable on any 48k Apple ][ with
Autostart ROM (that is, the disk whirrs when you turn on the power)...
(note that ][e's and IIgs's and IIc's are all 48k from DOS' point of view)

1.  Boot DOS 3.3 using any suitable, bootable disk.

2.  If you wish to have an auto-loading Applesoft program, write it. 
Otherwise, clear BASIC memory using either "]NEW" or "]FP".

3.  From the BASIC prompt ("]" or ">"), type...
]INIT DOS 3.3 FILENAMES ARE NICE!!!!
(use any legal DOS 3.3 filename...up to 30 characters, first
character has ASCII code >64, no commas)

If you have a machine with Applesoft in ROM and the Autostart ROM, you are
finished.  The INIT routine formats the disk, creates the directory,
writes a copy of DOS onto the boot tracks ($00-$02), and saves the current
BASIC program, placing its name into the DOS image.  If you start the
machine with this disk in the drive, DOS will start up and automatically
run your program.  A directory should look like this:

DISK VOLUME 254

A 002 DOS 3.3 FILENAMES ARE NICE!!!!

]_

4.  If your auto-load program is in Applesoft, and you want the disk to
boot cleanly on Integer-Only ]['s (to avoid the LANGUAGE NOT AVAILABLE
error), write a program in Integer BASIC, preferrably one that loads
Applesoft into the Language Card if present.  Save the program under the
name "APPLESOFT".

5.  If you want the disk to be bootable on ANY Apple ][, even those
without Autostart ROM, find a DOS 3.3 System Master, and BRUN the Master
Create program to write the self-relocating "master" version of DOS to
your disk.

Hope this helps!
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
(the more I fool with ProDOS, the more I like DOS 3.3!!)