Re: Franklin Ace DOS

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

willi@wilserv.com (Willi Kusche) wrote in message news:<3d7aa99a.0306102148.272fc24b@posting.google.com>...
> Hi!
> 
> "Bryan Villados" <news003@macgeek.org> wrote in message news:<yKeFa.70247$S9.2001291@twister.socal.rr.com>...
> > Hey, guys!
> > I booted Franklin Ace DOS on my IIe to see what happens. There's some funky
> > code in the programs on the disk that apparently doesn't like to run on a
> > non-Franklin Ace machine. For example, the COPY program reported a syntax
> > error on a line that contained a string variable using lowercase characters
> > as the variable name (in this case, "sv$").
> > Here's my question... Also on the Franklin Ace DOS disk are INTBASIC and
> > FPBASIC. Are these files reverse-engineered from the original Apple code?
> > Or, are these REALLY Apple files?
> > --- Bryan
> 
>     The two "FPBASIC" files are identical.  The Franklin version of
> "INTBASIC" has '   ACE  ' at offset $2B0D instead of 'APPLE ]['.
> 
>     The ROMs are different.  I can send a 3264 byte file showing the
> differences, if anyone is interested.
> 
>     Comparing the DOS would requiring the use of a sector compare to
> show the differences.
> 
> Willi

I'd be interested.  It would be nice to emulate the Franklin specifically :}

-uso.