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Re: Apple IIGS Operating System



Lyrical Nanoha wrote:
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, David4602@gmail.com wrote:

Michael J. Mahon wrote:

Boostrapping onto bare metal is a one-time job for most users.


Yes, but vitally important to them. :-)  I suppose there is a path from
bare metal to 5.25" bootable DOS 3.3, to a ProDOS 5.25" image, to 3.5"
ProDOS capable ADT.


I used to have a program that I coded - still think I have the .dsk but not the source - it saves as a DOS 3.3 binary file, loads ProDOS up into position as for a 64K ][+, and then chains to an image of BASIC.SYSTEM already located at native $2000. This might be useful.

I was thinking that once someone had bootstrapped a DOS version of ADT,
it would be straightforward to download a disk image of ProDOS and the
ProDOS version of ADT, then make a 5.25" disk of it.  All done.

-michael

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