Re: ProDOS / Applicard support lives!!

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Steven Hirsch wrote:
> Steven Hirsch wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Much to my amazement, I actually remembered how this all worked!
> >
> > In brief:  A collection of Applicard drivers, CP/M utilities and 
> > ProDOS utilities that boots and runs the PCPI Applicard (or Freed Z80 
> > card) directly under a live ProDOS-8 environment.
> >
> > Once you stage into it, it's possible to boot directly from a hard 
> > disk, quit to ProDOS as you would from any SYSTEM application and 
> > transfer files easily back and forth between CP/M and ProDOS.
> >
> > This suite was a by-product of early CardZ180 system development 
> > (CardZ180 only works this way and did so out of the box).  We didn't 
> > offer it standalone in order not to hurt sales.  Now, there's no good 
> > reason to sit on it.
> >
> > I'm going to spend some quality time writing up a quick how-to and try 
> > to get it posted in the Yahoo Apple CP/M group within a few days.
>
> I felt motivated.  Two Shrinkit diskette images and a README have just 
> been posted to the Apple CP/M Yahoo group.
>
> I'm still pinching myself trying to wrap my head around the fact that 
> this hack actually still works!

Very nice, Steven--thank you!  This removes a big impediment to my
running more CP/M software.

-michael

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