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

[Rob Greene <greeneratcharterdotnet>]

steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius) wrote in news:9307085f.0212070857.3d1bcb53
@posting.google.com:

> I'd like to know if anyone has a way to run DOS 3.3 programs off a
> 1.40 MB disk, so I can use a single floppy to store a number of games
> and not have to use the emulator's menu, and many of them (i.e., Hard
> Hat Mack) don't work in ProDOS.  The emulator I use (Dapple 0.99a)
> doesn't yet do 80-column, so ProSel might be out of the question as a
> launcher.  Perhaps there is a way to make DOS 3.x read 3 segments of
> the disk (1200 KB, most of the disk) through the ProDOS block device,
> and boot from it...?
> 
> Thx in advance.

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