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Re: Working, slowly, on a BASIC.SYSTEM clone of sorts



On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Eric Smith wrote:

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> writes:
Any program that calls DOS directly is going to pose some serious
difficulties in any case.

It should be possible to write code to emulate the DOS file manager
calls.  That might help some DOS programs run on ProDOS.

That sounds about right. I think what it really comes down to, is, how to take DOS 3.3, yank out the File Manager and init code, and change it into ProDOS calls, make sure the $BFxx page is clear, and write a relocator (the last part is the easiest, lol). I think, if I had a complete DOS 3.3 disassembly, ready to build with CC65's assembler, it wouldn't be very hard even for me.

-uso.