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Re: Can you boot something else than "PRODOS" in ProDOS?

Subject: Re: Can you boot something else than "PRODOS" in ProDOS?
From: Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>
Date: 03 Oct 2006 23:13:09 GMT
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a2aviator@gmail.com wrote:
> Ultima V, I believe and a couple other games have a different loader,
> though entitled 'PRODOS', it's only 10 blocks, there was also an SSI
> R-DOS derivative that used the ProDOS file system.

It also used ProDOS.  It just didn't use BASIC.System.

The 64K version actually swapped ProDOS in and out of the language card,
which somewhat hampered performance when reading text files.

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References:
- Can you boot something else than "PRODOS" in ProDOS?
  - From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>
- Re: Can you boot something else than "PRODOS" in ProDOS?
  - From: "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>
- Re: Can you boot something else than "PRODOS" in ProDOS?
  - From: "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>
- Re: Can you boot something else than "PRODOS" in ProDOS?
  - From: "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>
- Re: Can you boot something else than "PRODOS" in ProDOS?
  - From: "David Wilson" <mcs6502@gmail.com>
- Re: Can you boot something else than "PRODOS" in ProDOS?
  - From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
- Re: Can you boot something else than "PRODOS" in ProDOS?
  - From: a2aviator@gmail.com

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