Re: Can you boot something else than "PRODOS" in ProDOS?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

David Wilson <mcs6502@gmail.com> wrote:

> John B. Matthews wrote:
> > Interestingly, the boot1 loader will load _any_ reasonably sized file
> > named PRODOS into memory at $2000 and jump to it's start.
> 
> According to the Supplement to Beneath Apple ProDOS (v1.2 & 1.3) [page
> 8] the requirements are:
> 
> name must match
> storagetype must be sapling

That got me once. I wrote a simple text-only splash screen PRODOS file
which explained that you couldn't boot this disk and how to use it. I
had to pad it out to 513 bytes to make it a sapling file. :-)

> filetype must be SYS ($FF)

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz