Re: Where have all the buffers gone? (long time passing...)

[markj@infocom.net (Mark Johnson)]

In article <bciu4-2604962248440001@lspt-66ppp46.epix.net>,
bciu4@epix.net (Les Wetzel) wrote:

>Matthew Carlson wrote:
>
>>Well, sence I have gotten so much help from this newsgroup I will help out.
>
>>First off what are you using to convert? I have used a shareware program 
>>that puts a disk image of a DOS3.3 disk in a file and runs that from 
>>GSOS, and maybe also prodos. I will send it to you if you like. I think I 
>>got if off compuserve a long time ago (before I knew about the internet, 
>>well there wasn't really one). 
>
>>However, check out ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu in /systems/apple2, it will 
>>have it. Sorry I don't remember it's exact name off hand.
>
>>I don't have a clue what the buffers problem is. I get the same thing 
>>when I try to convert stuff. But, this utility doesn't seam to have the 
>>problem for the programs I have converted.
>
>
>Thanks for the help!  Sorry I wasn't more specific in what I was trying to do.
>
>I have some games that have been deprotected and are stored on 5.25 DOS 3.3
>floppies.  These games (Apple Panic, Snack Attack, Hard Hat Mack, etc.) work
>great when they are BRUN'ed in DOS 3.3.
>
>I am working with actual objects not disk images.  For example, Hart Hat Mack
>takes up 166 sectors on a DOS 3.3 floppy.
>
>I am trying to convert the games to ProDos format so that I can put them on
>a much larger, reliable, and faster storage medium (i.e. 3.5 diskettes).  I
>would like to put, as many of them as possible, on 800K diskettes.  Then setup
>a menu system so that I can pick the one that I want to run.
>
>The problem is that some of the converted games do not work in ProDos.  When
>I try to BRUN or "-" in ProDos, I get the following message, "No Buffers
>Available".
>
>What I think is happening, is that some of the games load below $800 in RAM
>and this is giving ProDos fits.
>
>Does anyone have a solution to this problem?
>
>Mercy Buckets,
>
>Les Wetzel
>bciu4@epix.net

There are 2 different formating programs that work for dos 3.3 and are bootable. One formats the 3.5 disk as 2 400k volumes the other 1 800 k volume.