Re: Bought a Franklin Ace 1000: Questions..

[tgeer@pro-gumbo.cts.com (System Administrator)]

In <ao59574@pro-nsdapple.cts.com> tomk@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Tom Kelly) writes:

>Does anyone have the patch to make ProDos work on a Franklin?

Patches - I've got patches.  Here are a couple of methods that you can try.
Please note that these patches are most probably version dependent.  I don't
know which version(s) these will work with - you'll just have to try them out.

This first patch is a memory patch only - you will have to perform it every
time you boot the disk but it's quick and dirty.  When you boot the disk and
it 'locks up', press reset and you will land in the monitor with a '*' prompt.
Now type:
          265B:EA EA <RETURN>
          2000G <RETURN>       the disk should boot normally now

The second method involves patching the disk with a sector editor such as the
one in Copy ][+.  Read in track $01, sector $09 and change bytes $60-$61 from
A9 00 to A5 0C.  If this does not work then get another ProDOS disk, read in
the same track and sector and change bytes $5B-$5C to EA EA.  Remember to only
apply these disk patches to expendable copies of your original disks and NEVER
to the original disks themselves.  These patches will probably only work with
very early versions of ProDOS.  P.S. Don't forget to write the modified sector
back out to the disk!

And to think - my wife wanted me to get rid of all my old Assembly Lines,
Computist, Nibbles, etc.  "But they might come in handy someday!"

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