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Re: Wanted: prodos prog selector2run dos3.3games



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. 



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