Re: ProDOS and Integer Basic

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

DOS 3.3 was designed for 140k floppies and while there were some
patched versions that would go up to around 400k that's about the limit..
There's nothing that'll let you format an 800k DOS 3.3 disk, however
there are a couple of programs that partition a 3.5" disk into two 400k
DOS 3.3 partitions.
The one I'm familiar with is AmDOS by Gary Little. It works well most
of the time. However one of the downsides is some programs look for
the floppy drive in slot 6 which isn't usually where the 3.5" drives
are on a IIgs.

Drew wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if a person could transfer a Dos 3.3 integer basic program
> disk onto a 3.5" disk.  I do a little programing and would like to run it
> off the smaller disk drive.  I have copy II+ and it wont let me format a
> 3.5" disk with dos you can only format it with ProDos.  But you can format
> the bigger disk with dos.
>
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