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Re: IIGs - Apple IIe programs

Michael J. Mahon wrote:

David Schmenk wrote:

John wrote:


On 30 Mar 2007 17:37:24 -0700, "mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote:



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My Pascal 1.3 came on both 5.25" and 3.5" disks. Have you tried formatting a 3.5 and copying all the files to it? I have also successfully booted 1.3 off my CFFA, on a II+ no less. You won't get any ProDOS partitions (or it will trash the Pascal FS), but it makes for a fine Pascal environment. I ran FORMATTER on APPLE3: and it did the right thing. I just copied everything over from floppy. I would think the same thing would work to a 3.5" destination. 

So it wouldn't be a bad thing to simply devote a small CF card to
Pascal, and swap it into the CFFA when needed.  ;-)

-michael

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That is what I did. I had a small 8 MB card lying around from some digital camera I had bought and upgraded. Unfortunately the Pascal FS is flat, and I believe limited to something like 78 files. That limit may have been raised in 1.2/1.3 to support smartport devices, but I don't really know. Still, 78 is about as much as you want to deal with in a single directory. The environment runs very fast (although not quite Turbo Pascal - which was sold in Apple CP/M disk format - fast), even on a 64K II+. It feels much faster than my III running Pascal off of a CFFA. 

Dave...