Re: AppleSoft Basic Launcher program

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article 
<b9ae466f-eb0c-41a7-8675-aa279a47fa8e@y6g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
 oz390gta <oz390gta@gmail.com> wrote:

> Some time in the 80's I found the code for a laucher program in 
> Nibble or A2+, typed it in, customized it and used it for many years. 
> I gave away the magazines long ago and who knows where my code has 
> gone. Does anyone remember such a program or have one similar? It was 
> the STARTUP program that gave you the option to boot from slot 5, 
> slot 6, launch basic, launch GS/OS etc.

It's not the same one, but you might like my Basic STARTUP program for 
ProDOS featured on the miscellaneous code disk mentioned here:

<http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmatthews/apple2.html>

It's one of many that capitalized on opening a file of type DIR:

D$ = CHR$(4): PRINT D$"PREFIX": INPUT P$: 
PRINT D$"OPEN"P$",TDIR": PRINT D$"READ"P$:
FOR I = 1 TO 3: INPUT A$ ...

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John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>