Re: musing - wacky ideas - dos334p8.system etc.

[ol.sc@web.de (Oliver Schmidt)]

Hi,

>> 1. Emulating DOS 3.3 files with ProDOS 8 files should be feasable
>> (with some restrictions on file names etc.), but the question is how
>> useful it would be (see above).

>> 3. Emulating DOS 3.3 sectors with ProDOS 8 image files makes most
>> sense and was therefore already done in the 80's:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS.MASTER

>Looking more to #1.  And I don't see why, for example, a chargen would 
>crash BASIC.SYSTEM, but a lot of them do.  I'm talking programs that are 
>still predominantly BASIC, but do use a good amount of machine code to do 
>things BASIC really can't.

I see. But I'm still unclear about the benefit of #1 over #3.

Best, Oliver