Re: prodos v1.9 basic.system v1.4 needed

[chrisw@flood.xnet.com (Chris Wicklein)]

Dave Tribby (tribby@cup.hp.com) wrote:
: Simon C.Hall (be946@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) wrote:
: > Does anyone know where I can get a evaluation copy of prodos v1.9 and
: > basic.system v1.4.
: > I have an old II+ and would like to try out a few programs under them.
: > All I have is the old pro v1.4 and basic v1.1

: I'm not sure if this will work on pre-//e systems, but you can
: use anonymous ftp to directory /dts/aii/sys.soft on ftp.apple.com
: and get the file "8bit.system.4.0.2". If you have a WWW browser, use
: <URL: ftp://ftp.apple.com/dts/aii/sys.soft/ >

	I think that at least one version of ProDOS that was intended to 
be ][ compatible picked up some 65c02 ops and was rendered a //e+ 
version, though it didn't depend on the //e other than for the new ops.  
It might be that you can run just about any ProDOS on a ][ by adding the 
65c02 (which must go for around $5), though you'd certainly have to patch 
out whatever part of ProDOS went looking for the //e signature bytes.  
This is pretty speculative on my part, though.

: -- Dave Tribby
:    tribby@cup.hp.com

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