Re: *Emulator 0.4 (unlocked /// mode Apple ][ "emulator")

[lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx (Steve Nickolas)]

schmidtd wrote:
> On Oct 19, 12:24�pm, lyricalnan...@dosius.ath.cx (Steve Nickolas)
> wrote:
>> schmidtd wrote:
>> > On Oct 18, 10:27 pm, lyricalnan...@dosius.ath.cx (Steve Nickolas)
>> > wrote:
>> >> Note that the font should have become the Apple ][ font before the
>> >> "Star
>> >> Emulator" banner displayed, and that underscored text should have been
>> >> in
>> >> lowercase. This is, I believe, a MESS bug.
>>
>> > Confirmed on the real thing - the font is lowercase, and switches to
>> > the Apple ][ font for the banner display.
>>
>> This is why I wish I had a ///, but real metal gets expensive these days.
>> :(
> 
> I'm happy to help.
> 
>> Does it boot disks on metal? �It runs most 48K software on MESS.
> 
> Yes.  I am now just waiting for you to implement the language card
> memory area so I can boot 64k ProDOS!
>

Not so sure how well I could do that.  So long as I don't wind up
accidentally locking myself out of the RAM banking (this might just be MESS,
or it might just be I don't know something about how the /// works) it might
be possible for me to *modify* ProDOS to run on the /// by swapping code in
and out of the D000-FFFF area from another bank instead of turning the LC on
and off.

A similar trick could be used for fpbasic/intbasic on DOS 3.3.

I wonder what the emulation disk does differently than SOS.DRIVER that MESS
is able to load the fonts from it and not from SOS?

-uso.