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Re: Tweaking DOS.SYSTEM from Extra-K to support other DOS 3.3 variants
- Subject: Re: Tweaking DOS.SYSTEM from Extra-K to support other DOS 3.3 variants
- From: Ed Eastman <noone@nowhere.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:01:27 -0600
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- Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Moll wrote:
I've been working on this concept, a DOS.SYSTEM that loads Pronto-DOS,
or ZDOS, or TurboDOS, instead of DOS 3.3
...
immediately exits to BASIC after initialization, it does not attempt to
RUN HELLO.
I like your idea!
Hm, sounds to me like you are initializing a running DOS, and not the
boot loader that actually does the call on start-up.
Look into the boot process (Beneath Apple DOS) and see where your
intialization needs to go one DOS is lit.
Thankx,
Ed