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Re: Apple ][ using PC floppy





On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, vladitx wrote:

On Dec 27, 11:49 pm, lyricalnanoha
<lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:

DOS 3.3's limit is 400K per disk.  ProDOS can go up to 32 MB.

ProDOS is probably allright. Isn't the VTOC in DOS a problem?

Any black-on-white patch for 400K? This makes for 100 tracks which is
more than enough.

For DOS 3.3 you prolly just need to rewrite RWTS to handle it?

Just skipping the track*2 seek, I hope.


The only patch I've seen is for 800K using a ProDOS block device.
There's several of them, one has source (in a few pieces):
http://www.txbobsc.com/aal/1986/aal8605.html#a1
http://www.txbobsc.com/aal/1986/aal8607.html#a3
http://www.txbobsc.com/aal/1987/aal8704.html#a2

I'm actually trying to figure out how to do this ProDOS block device stuff, so I can write a simple OS for storing single-file games and running them from a menu. (doesn't need write access, can create it from a PC.)

-uso.