Re: ProDOS and Integer Basic

["Sir Cain" <rcain3@mindspring.com>]

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Sir Cain The Silicon Knight
> >The only way I can see for you to use an Integer BASIC program under
> >ProDOS is either to convert the program to Applesoft BASIC or to use
> >Orca/Integer BASIC.
>
This will work, but if there are any Reads or Writes to disk, you'll have to
modify the ORCA/Integer BASIC with some mods that were in GS+ to allow for
Disk operations.  Sorry, but I don't have the mods handy and I'm not sure
where my GS+'s are.

> When this topic came up a while ago, someone mentioned another
alternative:
> Find a machine with Integer BASIC in ROM (not in bank-switched RAM).  Then
> find a version of ProDOS old enough to run on that machine.  Then write
> a replacement for BASIC.SYSTEM that works with Integer BASIC.
>
I don't think there is a version of ProDOS that will run with Integer BASIC
in ROM.  I used to have a version of Integer Basic that would run in the
lower 48K.  It was a modified version of Integer BASIC that set between the
Buffers of DOS 3.3, and left you with about 32K of useable RAM.  It wouldn't
work with ProDOS, but if someone had the source for Integer Basic a
replacement for Basic.System shouldn't be to hard for an accomplished
Assembly programmer (I'm not volunteering either, I prefer the ORCA/Integer
method above!).