Re: Clock Patch

[Howard Poe <hojopo@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, March 9, 2013 7:16:27 PM UTC-8, Hugh Hood wrote:
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> You mentioned this:
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> > When I crated my IIe (2.0.3) I did a great job.
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> The patch program you referenced, though,
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> > http://www.techtalkz.com/apple/435946-prodos-patch.html
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> has version checks for only ProDOS 1.9 and ProDOS 2.0.
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> Is there a chance the program is aborting not due to the Volume name issue,
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> If so, I would use instead the patch program from the last official ProDOS 8
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> Hugh Hood

It patched ProDOS 8 2.0.3 on my //e just fine with the linked program, using the slot identifier to ID the ProDOS to be patched.  I type S71, as it filled in the , and D automatically.

Note:  When it successfully patches, it seems to just return to the prompt asking for the ProDOS location.  I confirmed that it did patch ProDOS and the date is now correct, showing 2013 instead of 1996.