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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: "RedskullDC" <RDC@oz.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 06:10:24 GMT
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> An example of how this is not needed can be found on the Program Writer
> disk. Boot the disk, and it will start in ProDOS (1.1.1). Select "Switch
> to DOS 3.3", and lo and behold it switches to DOS 3.3! Extra-K had all
> the necessary tools to do this. I think it marked the first half of the
> disk used in the DOS 3.3 allocation tables, and the second half used in
> the ProDOS allocation tables. There were directories for both OSes, and
> DOS.SYSTEM loaded DOS 3.3 from ProDOS.
>
> My idea would be to replace DOS.SYSTEM with a PRONTO.SYSTEM, ZDOS.SYSTEM,
> TDOS.SYSTEM or ESDOS.SYSTEM which would load a faster DOS.
Is the EXTRA-K disk on Asimov? or do you have a link to one of these hybrid
disks? or the ORIGINAL dos.system ?
Red