Re: Help Q: ProDos Quicken & Y2K

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Barry Allen wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Anybody know of a fix/patch/hack to make Quicken for the Apple II (v.1.0)
> handle Y2K dates correctly?

To the best of my knowledge, no one has achieved that. I seem to remember that
someone wrote that Quicken was written in Pascal, and (perhaps it was someone
else) that it was too difficult to find where to patch to make it worthwhile.

Roy

>
>
> I don't believe there ever was a version after the one I have. It runs from
> a GS Rom 01 with 6.0.1 but that's no help. It does not use the GS clock to
> map the date. If you try to set a date manually in the register, it won't
> even let you into the "19" part of the date field. Other than the incorrect
> date, it works fine.
>
> Since the interface is a close cousin of Apple Works Classic (borrowed code
> perhaps?), I was wondering if any of the APWKS patches will work.
>
> Ideas appreciated in advance.
>
> Barry Allen