I think I found that out. The PowerBook 3400c does work. I'm working
on getting the basic utilities over to the IIGS as we speak.
-Rob
Heh, I'm not as close as I thought I was. I have GSShrink (SDK), ShrinkIt
(SDK), and Binscii.exec (text). Of course, they're all type $00.
I found out I cannot just BLOAD,T$00,A$xxxx,Lyyyy.
So, being clever, I realized that my ProDOS 8 Technical Reference Manual
still had the 5.25" ProDOS Exercisor program. I'll just use that as a
rudimentary type changer, right? I used GET_FILE_INFO ($c4) followed by
SET_FILE_INFO ($c3) to change to a $04 type.
Didn't work. CAT shows it as TXT. But I still get an invalid file type
error (or whatever it was). I still cannot BLOAD it either. Aargh - what
else do I need to do?
I did find out that if I "CREATE TEXTFILE,TTXT" and then "BSAVE
TEXTFILE,TTXT,A$xxxx,Lyyyy" I get a genuine text file that can be executed.
The only thing I can think of is to write a little program to load the
BINSCII.EXEC file into memory at some fixed address and then do the
CREATE/BSAVE trick. I just need to open ($c8), read ($ca), and then close
($cc) the file to some predetermined address (like $1000).
It's not terrible, but there has got to be a better way! )-: