Re: Wanted: prodos prog selector2run dos3.3games

[mattack@eskimo.com (Matt Ackeret)]

In article <4aqrdk$g2r@cello.gina.calstate.edu>,
Jason Kennerly <jkenner@cello.gina.calstate.edu> wrote:
>lazarus.long@adobe.com (Lazarus I. Long) writes:
>> many old DOS 3.3 games will run under prodos, provided they don't run out
>> of buffer space while loading, and this happens a lot when run from
>> basic.system.  but if we're just running a program selector there'll be
>> more memory available to load the program yes?
>> perhaps someone knows simply how to patch the prodos file selector so that
>> it will load the program at its native location instead of $2000?
>
>You cant, since the location for the BLOAD is stored in the auxtype field 
>I think. 
>HOWEVER, you might have better luck simply writing some machine code to 
>move the file to its proper location after loading at $2000. 

	As I suggested to the guy in e-mail, DOS 3.3 Launcher will allow
you to run many DOS 3.3 file-version games and full-disk programs from 
ProDOS, and return back to ProDOS too (at least on a GS, via the CDA).
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