Re: Prodos like dos33dmp?

["Scott Johnson" <scomps@purplewire.nospam.org>]

Thanks for all the great information!  It does sound like a lot of fun
actually :)  I just wish I'd made this move earlier in the holiday vacation.
Tomorrow it's back to work on current(?) computers etc so time will be
limited once again.  As far as the SCSI drive, he pulled on the clear
signals cable (yes that cute little plastic strip with the traces in it) and
destroyed that.  Sad but true.  It was clipped into place and he didn't
realize it and figured it should just slide out.  oh well.  I mentioned the
SCSI drive strictly in the sense that even though I do have an older mac
laying around, I don't have the floppy media (this is a pattern isn't it) to
boot it and the hard drive is now officially a paperweight :)

At any rate, I'll mess around with this a bit more, but I think you're right
that I will have some issues with the emulators as the //c plus seems to be
a fairly unique machine in the line.

>
> Sounds like fun, if that's the kind of brainteaser you like. There are
> probably a few stumbing blocks you will run into; I don't recall all
> the details of the ProDOS boot process, so bringing the memory image to
> life may involve some weird tricks loading the I/O hooks in zero page
> and so forth. You may have some frankenstein version of ProDOS along
> the way that has unique bugs or difficulties.
>
> Yeah, buying a 5.25 drive would be the easy way out. Not sure what you
> mean about the damaged SCSI drive: most hard drives in my past were
> sealed enough that you could only get at the SCSI cable (relatively
> simple to repair/replace) and soldered-on devices.
>
> --Joe
>