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Re: BASICS diskette?
- Subject: Re: BASICS diskette?
- From: Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 2005 21:15:33 -0800
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Linards Ticmanis wrote:
> again and again in early Apple documentation, the "BASICS diskette" is
> being mentioned. It seems that it was delivered with the first release
> of DOS 3.3, and that its purpose is to make sure both BASICs (Integer
> and Applesoft) are available, then boot a 13-sector disk. Is this
> correct?
Yes.
I found that some pre-16-sector games and such would boot successfully
with BASICS but not with BOOT13, and some with BOOT13 but nto with
BASICS. I'm guessing that the most likely cuase would be the use of a
nonstandard bootstrap, and that BOOT13 and BASICS probably load the 13
sector "ROM" boot code at different addresses.