Re: DOS 3.3 for 1.40 MB disk, for a system with non-working 80-column code?

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

Rob Greene <greeneratcharterdotnet> wrote in message news:<Xns92DFE439F2FD6Rob.Greene@216.168.3.44>...
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> > Rob Greene <greeneratcharterdotnet> wrote in message
> > news:<Xns92DDE6F01FAEBRob.Greene@216.168.3.44>... 
> >> I do remember the old ProFile hard disk came with a program that
> >> allowed DOS to use a 5MB ProFile disk as something like 35 floppies. 
> >> I think that they were all 140K.  Anyway, they were accessed via the
> >> volume number.  The ProFile was just a big ProDOS device -- and the
> >> utility just mapped the ProDOS blocks into the appropriate (virtual)
> >> tracks and sectors.  As I remember, you just needed to run the
> >> utility and it would hook right into DOS and be seemless after that.
> >> 
> >> Not sure if that specific program would do the trick or if somebody
> >> has something similar.
> >> 
> >> Unfortunately, I don't have it anymore.  I'll poke around, just in
> >> case though.
> >> -Rob
> > 
> > It'd be interesting to see.  Megadisk in Dapple is a ProDOS block
> > device, apparently.
> 
> I don't have the original disks (well, I didn't make an image of them at 
> anyrate).  However, I was rewriting them.  I have source for a number of 
> versions (7 of them)... but I think I was pretty much disassembling the 
> original code.  Apparantly it was called ProFix, as all my code was 
> named as such.  Since I bought the ProFile second hand, I don't really 
> know where this code originated.  (The original owner ran a BBS called 
> Dark Light, I believe - in the Twin Cities.)
> 
> Anyway, if you're interested in the code, I don't see any reason why I 
> couldn't ship it over.  I really don't know too much about it, 
> unfortunately.  I'm not sure how much use it will be, as the utilities 
> that setup the ProDOS volume are gone as far as I can tell.
> -Rob
> 
> P.S. I just found some files titled "PROFILE $C800 ROM.S", "PROFILE 
> $C500 ROM.S" and "PROFILE DRIVER.S" which may (at least) be from the 
> original disks.

I don't think it'd be much use if, as you say, there is no way to set
up the volume.  But I found something that (partially) worked: UniDOS.
 Now if only Copy ][+ could read/write to UniDOS disks... I'm stuck
with FID and it's having problems. :E

-uso.