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Re: Apple IIe boot question
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
> > I was very excited to discover that the ProDOS Users Disk
> >has a conversion feature that allows DOS 3.3 programs to be made to
> >run on ProDOS disks.
>
> This is not really a conversion--it just moves files "as is" from one file
> system to the other. If the file is a program, it may work under the
> other file system as long as it doesn't do any disk I/O (which would
> require some actual porting--usually quite difficult).
If the DOS program is well commented it's not so bad, but a few that
I've converted have been quite a challenge. I like to use Beagle Bros
Program Writer for this kind of thing -- it's available on Ground I
think.
-simon
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