Re: Franklin Ace DOS

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

steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius) wrote in message news:<9307085f.0306100955.117d5f8f@posting.google.com>...
> "Bryan Villados" <news003@macgeek.org> wrote in message news:<yKeFa.70247$S9.2001291@twister.socal.rr.com>...
> > Hey, guys!
> > 
> > I booted Franklin Ace DOS on my IIe to see what happens. There's some funky
> > code in the programs on the disk that apparently doesn't like to run on a
> > non-Franklin Ace machine. For example, the COPY program reported a syntax
> > error on a line that contained a string variable using lowercase characters
> > as the variable name (in this case, "sv$").
> 
> Yeah, seen that.
> 
> > 
> > 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
> 
> They look like Apple files...when I get home I'll do a CALL -1184 and
> see what happens.
> 
> -uso.

With FPBASIC, CALL -1184 -> "APPLE ]["
With INTBASIC, CALL -1184 -> "ACE"

Both?...

-uso.