Re: Prodos like dos33dmp?

[David Wilson <david@uow.edu.au>]

"Scott Johnson" <scomps@purplewire.nospam.org> writes:
>Is it possible to transfer Prodos to a //c plus via a comm link like dos
>3.3?  I've looked around for a couple weeks (on and off) and haven't seen
>any mention of somebody doing this.  I realize most of prodos lives on the
>disks themselves, but without the initial memory dump I can't see any way to
>load software onto the system to create the media.

With a //c+ I could do it. This is because the 3.5" disk formatting
code is in the ROM. All you need do is upload a small program over the
serial port which when started formats an 800KB disk and then sucks
an 800KB image up the serial line and writes it block by block to the
disk. This would also work on a //c with a UniDisk 3.5. I may try this
out on my IIe with 3.5 controller card.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia