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Re: From the WTF File: ProDOS and DOS 3.3 peacefully cohabiting



Hi,

>>> Why not save the global page in the high part of LC2, above the quit 
>>> code?
>>> [...]

>> Is that still true for e.g., ProDOS 8 v1.9 and later, or GS/OS?  (One of 
>> my tests is running The DOS Escape from GS/OS, and returning to the 
>> Finder.)

>For vm02, I completely destroy LC2 and ProDOS continues to work (even 
>with the appletalk network card).  Of course it kills the quit code so I 
>have to reboot, but it appears that LC2 is mostly available.  Oliver has 
>done a lot of investigation into using LC2 as well.

Yes, indeed. I'm so confident in reusing LC bank 2 that I even went so
far to build support for doing so directly into the cc65 C-Library:

http://www.cc65.org/doc/apple2-3.html

Best, Oliver