Re: Wanted: prodos prog selector2run dos3.3games

[gt8624a@prism.gatech.edu (William Sheldon Simms)]

In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.951221195725.28027E-100000@owens>,
Cyrus Roton  <croton@ridgecrest.ca.us> wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, Lazarus I. Long wrote:
>> 
>> what i'm looking for is a ProDOS program selector that will BRUN a binary
>> program, without BASIC.SYSTEM.  Anyone?
>
>That might be a problem, since BRUN is a BASIC command.

That's not a big deal, all BRUN does is load the file in at the
appropriate location and jump to it.

>The alternative, 
>if one knows how, is to convert the BINARY program to a SYSTEM file, then 
>place it as the first system file (other than ProDOS) on the disk. Then 
>it will run automatically. I am not sure whether a simple change of 
>file-type will work.

For any arbitrary program, it almost certainly wouldn't work. system files
are loaded and executed at $2000. If the binary image was meant to go
anywhere besides $2000 it wouldn't work. Even if the image was meant to
go at $2000, system programs are supposed to do some other stuff like
tell ProDOS what memory they're using, and quit with a ProDOS EXIT call.
But I don't know how this would affect the program. It might run ok and
then crash on exit, for example.

-Sheldon


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