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Re: Best Way to transferts files (programs) from Dos to Prodos
tmumford wrote:
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:36:23 +0000, Lyrical Nanoha wrote:
Not all such programs will run correctly due to memory layout changes.
System Utilities, or Copy ][+, will do the job just fine.
From which version of copy ][+?
The newest I have is v4.1
Any ProDOS version of Copy II Plus will copy DOS files to ProDOS.
(And I don't even recall any non-ProDOS versions at this point. ;-)
I've been using the method that was pointed out to me in the contiki
apple2 port for making them into binaries. Although after consulting the
relevent docs, I think I'll just make a small mangler util.
<quote>
6. Use any ProDOS 8 file utility program capable of reading DOS 3.3 files to
copy the files from the DOS 3.3 disk to a ProDOS 8 disk.
7. Use BASIC.SYSTEM to convert the loader from a BIN to a SYS file:
BLOAD CONTIKI.SYSTEM
DELETE CONTIKI.SYSTEM
CREATE CONTIKI.SYSTEM,TSYS
BSAVE CONTIKI.SYSTEM,TSYS,A$2000,L465
</quote>
Adapt as necessary.
For getting the files from dos3.3 to prodos, I've been using the prodos
utility disk. I think it's on asimov somewhere.
For dumping things from the PC to the apple//e, I've been mostly using adt
or ZLink (prodos).
All of that is unnecessary--and maybe much more *is* necessary to make
them workable.
There are *no* DOS 3.3 "system" files--so don't make them "look" like
system files. Just leave them as binary files and, if you're lucky,
you can BRUN (or "-") them. But don't be surprised if they don't run
as expected, since the DOS environment they may expect is not present.
-michael
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