Re: Is ProDOS supported in OSX?

[email@luddite.ca (Simon Williams)]

JWolf6589 <jwolf6589@aol.comnospam> wrote:

> << "Support" is a pretty vague term... what kind of support are you hoping
> for? There are plenty of shareware utilities for dealing with disk images
> etc... Bernie does okay in OSX - though it's much more stable on a "real"
> OS 9 machine...  >>
> 
> 
> OSX cannot format or read ProDOS floppies.  I hear a native OSX version of
> Bernie is on the rise.  I wish Apple would allow booting of OS 9 on a new
> world Mac.

That's why I rushed out and got a new Mac in January, I'm not anti-X,
but its support for classic apps is a bit dodgy, my eMac boots just fine
in 9, though the lack of floppy drive is a bit of a drawback when it
comes to ProDOS. AFAIK you can still get an OS9-bootable Mac, but don't
quote me...

Even if OSX could write ProDOS floppies, your still going to be stuck
with a 1.44 MB drive which isn't exactly a2-compatible (for most of us).
I still think the best thing that could happen to the A2 world would be
a USB --> Disk ][ controller, but I doubt it's worth anyone's time to
develop such a beast...

The bottom line is that there's no reason to expect Apple to put any
resources into it, it's now up to the hobbyists to start innovating...

-simon

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