Re: On Balance by Broderbund

[ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford)]

In a previous article, tacompte@cuok.cameron.edu (Thomas A. Compter) says:

>Jerry Kindall (kindall@ic.net) wrote:
>
>> On Balance is now called Bottom Line and....
>> ... the program itself is still DOS 3.3 
>> based). 
>
>Is that why the catalog says it's not hard disk installable?
>Is it copy protected?   I'm just wondering if you could 
>use it with Glen Bredon's DOS Master, which allows you to 
>put DOS 3.3 "disk images" on your Hard Disk. 

Actually, On Balance was not DOS 3.3 based.  It used a custom loader and a
custom format for its data disks.  I have version 1.2.9 which came on a
3.5" disk but requires a 5.25" disk for data storage.  I checked both the
program disk and the data disk, using GSOS 6.01, and the available FSTs
did not recognize the format of either.  I tried a couple other utilities
and they likewise were unable to recognize the format.  The disks are not
copy protected, they can be copied with any utility.  I was unaware that
Bottomline was actually the same program.  Can anyone confirm this?


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