Re: Hacking on Integer Basic, and ProDOS

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

Paul,
> What would happen if one booted Apple DOS on such a machine with your
> modified Integer Basic in ROM which DOS believed is Applesoft Basic?
> Would Integer Basic programs be stored on disk with the "A" file type?
> Probably - and those programs would be impossible to load on a machine
> with normal Applesoft and/or Integer Basic in ROM: DOS would think the
> file was an Applesoft program, but to Applesoft the file would contain
> garbage, since Applesoft is unable to interpret a tokenized Integer
> Basic program.
    You have a good theory and I agree.  I have no idea if DOS 3.3 may 
detect "4C" in $E000 to give "A" or "I".  We should be able to modify DOS 
3.3 by adding two or three codes.  First code like "4C" will be renamed to 
"01".  Second code like "20" will be renamed to "02".  Third code like new 
version of Integer BASIC will be "03".  All three codes will be detected in 
zero page.  More codes like Pascal, C, Fortran, or other languages will be 
used in DOS 3.3 and ProDOS.
    What do you think?  We need to find other way to onvercome the 
incompatibility.

Bryan Parkoff