Re: bsq files

[John <appleiieman@charter.net>]

I tried putting the file on the first part of the disk and the file
loads but as soon as the message displays that it loaded, Apple goes
to monitor mode.  Does anyone have a different driver or another
solution?

John




On 13 Jan 2004 09:24:34 GMT, mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

>Paul R. Santa-Maria wrote:
>
>>Bill Garber wrote:
>>> Or as I do, simply run the intended file from the
>>> BASIC prompt. For the No Slot Clock I did exactly
>>> that. I figured I only needed to run it once since
>>> once the patched ProDOS was on my CFFA drive, I would
>>> not need to run it again. ;-)
>>
>>It all depends on whether the program patches the
>>ProDOS clock driver in memory or on disk.  The 
>>location of the clock driver was fixed in memory
>>but changed on disk as different versions of
>>ProDOS were developed.
>>
>>Obviously, if PRODOS.SYSTEM was patched then you
>>only had to run it once.  If the driver was
>>installed in memory then you had to run it each
>>boot.
>
>Exactly.  And IIRC, the No-Slot Clock program is a
>boot-time patch of the clock driver in _memory_.
>
>I would expect any program packaged as a SYS program
>to be of this type, since a regular BRUNable program, or
>even an Applesoft program, could patch the ProDOS clock
>driver on disk.  SYS programs with xxx.SYSTEM names
>can be run automatically on boot (without any modification
>to a disk's STARTUP program).
>
>It was considered better form to patch ProDOS in memory
>than to patch it on disk, although I chose the latter method
>for a clock driver I wrote.  By appending a "p" to the ProDOS
>version number, though, the patched status was obvious at
>boot time.
>
>-michael
>
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