Re: Installing CP/M on a ProFile drive

[A2Pro <a2@wilserv.com>]

Hi!

On Mar 21, 7:10 pm, Steven wrote:
> Willi,  _which_ CP/M card?  Microsoft had at least three different models that
> I know of.  All were quite different hardware-wise.

    I have the first SoftCard from M/$ and the SoftCard IIe.  I seem
to remember reading about a non-IIe Premium SoftCard but have never
seen one on eBay.  The documentation I found was at the front of a
manual for the SoftCard IIe.  Both sets of documentation are in a
three ring binder but the pages on installing CP/M on a ProFile read
as if they are NOT for the IIe version of the SoftCard.  I'm assuming
that the "SOFTCARD.SYSTEM" will work with ANY CP/M card.  Even if it
doesn't, I would LOVE to analyze the system file.

> If you are patient, I still intend to get my universal driver for
> Applicard/Starcard out under GPL.  It lets you carve a CP/M volume out of any
> ProDos volume on _any_ device - ProFile included.

    What if I'm NOT patient?  ;)

    By the way, the documentation I have for installing CP/M on a
ProFile instructs one to use the ProFile Partition Manager to set up a
Pascal volume on the ProFile and to name that volume "CP/M".  Sounds
as if "SOFTCARD.SYSTEM" is some kind of driver to let CP/M use the
Pascal volume as its own.  Apparently, it works somewhat like your
driver, Steven.

Willi