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Re: Apple IIc Plus System Disks? -Thanks!



On May 24, 2:39 pm, Linards Ticmanis <ticma...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 05/24/2011 07:11 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
>
> [booting]
>
> > My understanding was that for all practical purposes, this is true. The
> > BASIC program appears to have vanished.
>
> > But it's still there; only the pointers in RAM have been changed to mark a
> > zero-length program.
>
> Doesn't the boot load happen at $800, overwriting the beginning of the
> program? And doesn't ProDOS get loaded to $2000 first, overwriting
> whatever is there? Or am I mixing things up?

Yep - the loader and relocator walk all over $800.  (Beneath Apple
ProDOS, pp. 5-10, 5-11)