Re: Apple IIplus ROMs in original II?

[Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se>]

In article <phbZd.56919$fc4.3626@edtnps89>, waynes@telus.dotnet says...
> Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
> > ProDos won't boot on an Apple II with Integer Basic ROM's on the 
> > motherboard.  And an Integer Basic ROM card won't help either since it
> > cannot coexist with a Language Card, and ProDos requires a Language Card 
> > to be able to even boot.
> 
> Huh? My integer basic Apple II happily boots early versions of ProDOS.
> I've booted Copy II Plus off a SCSI hard drive in my II. If I'd come up
> with an Integer Basic program selector I'd have left ther hard drive
> connected to the II.
> 
> Later versions of ProDOS require 64k but the first version will run on
> 48k.

OK, I had forgot that some early ProDOS versions could run in 48K.
But you wouldn't be able to start the Basic System on a 48K machine
with Integer Basic in ROM.  You could only make ProDOS autostart
some binary file which doesn't depend on Applesoft in ROM.

> I've always used a ROM card with a language card. They have nothing to
> do with each other aside from both using slots in the same machine.

...and mapping to the same RAM address space... :-)
 
> Wayne
>