Re: Torpedo Fire by SSI

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:
> > Failing that, "ProDOS RDOS" fromhttp://fadden.com/dl-apple2/index.htm#rdos
> > can transfer the files and provide a ProDOS replacement for the SSI RDOS
> > ampersand interface.
> >
> > I don't remember if Torpedo Fire was one of the games that we actually
> > converted Back In The Day, but we had a couple dozen games converted to
> > ProDOS once upon a time.
> 
> The game is listed in the file PDOS.EXAMPLES in the
> "PDOS-Compatible Software" section as successfully
> transferrable.

Excellent.  Should be fairly automatic then.  The usual rules apply, e.g.
you may need to disable "QWERTY" or "@WERTY" (which would likely defeat
a NIB image -- I think they did nibble counting).

> Sorry for the dumb question, but will it work with NIB images
> instead of real disks?

It should.  RDOS Transfer includes different RWTS routines for the different
SSI formats, which are 13- or 16-sector with modified address headers.

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