David Schmenk wrote:
I've always assumed ProDOS wouldn't work on an Integer Basic Apple II. I
fired up HBCC on my II and to my surprise, it worked. Does anyone know
of the ProDOS limitations on an Apple II besides running BASIC.SYSTEM?
Many people unfortunately seem to use BASIC.SYSTEM only to execute a
one-liner which says
10 PRINT CHR$(4)"BRUN STUFF"
or some such. For Prorgams that use BASIC only to load a binary, it's
both faster, simpler, and leaves much more free RAM to use the simple
LOADER.SYSTEM, which is also compatible with the original model Apple II.
LOADER.SYSTEM is a very small SYS file that you simply rename to the
name of your BRUNable binary plus ".SYSTEM" and then stick on your disk
instead of BASIC.SYSTEM. The rest is automatic.
When you have 64K installed, the II can use all ProDOS versions up to
1.9 in this way, as far as I can tell.