Re: Bad DOS 3.3 master (was Re: Need Pong for Apple 2)

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

Yes, now I remember, thanks for the memory jog. I used to use the BASICS
disk to boot DOS 3.2 but I had forgotten where I got it.

Tom Zuchowski

"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
news:a2gi9v$djo$1@merope.saaf.se...
> In article <3c4b071d_4@news3.prserv.net>,
> Tom Zuchowski <tzuchow@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > The DOS 3.3 BASICS disk didn't have anything readable, did it?
>
> AFAIR the BASICS disk came with Apple Pascal, not with DOS 3.3.
> Naturally the BASICS disk was in Apple Pascal format.
>
> > All I knew it could do was preboot your DOS 3.3 system so it
> > could boot up a DOS 3.2 disk.
>
> The BASICS disk predated DOS 3.3 - it loaded the BASIC (Integer or
> APplesoft) which wasn't present in the ROM's into the Language
> Card, then it loaded a small "boot PROM" code segment so you
> could continue by booting into DOS 3.2
>
> Thus the BASICS disk did in no way depend on DOS 3.3; however the
> Apple Pascal system did have the same disk controller card PROM
> upgrade as was later included with the DOS 3.3 upgrade.
>
>
>
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