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Re: Applicard CP/M on Apple ///!



On 1/7/2013 5:20 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
On 01/06/2013 05:29 PM, David Schmidt wrote:
On 1/6/2013 3:58 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
On 01/06/2013 01:22 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
On 1/6/13 10:11 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
There is driver support for running CP/M from the ProFile and I'll be
trying that next - but have no reason to think it won't work.

Perhaps this can be hacked together to work for the /// as well:

http://applecpm.blogspot.hu/2011/12/up-and-running-with-cpm-on-cffa.html


That's a big maybe.  I don't know much about A3 device drivers nor do I
know if the CFFA emulates a ProFile on the A3.

I know some about both.  What needs to happen?

I'm not entirely sure.  At best, the Applicard utility that creates a
pseudo-disk for CP/M (actually a hidden file in SOS) will be smart
enough to do this with any block storage device that offers an A3 driver
interface.  At worst, it may be hard-wired for a 5 and 10 Meg ProFile only.

I'll try to make some time to try my CFFA-3000 on it this next weekend.

Ok, cool. My CFFA3000 Apple III driver is definitely a standard block storage device. If the utility looks for .PROFILE or /PROFILE, there are still ways around that - renaming the volume or the driver. Pretty much all Apple III software was really good and disciplined about going through the driver interface, so confidence is high.