Re: Prodos Woes

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Jeff Blakeney" <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 07:24:35 GMT, "Bender MX" <no@morespam.com>
wrote:
:
: >  I was trying to 'Bsave' and 'Bload' lo-res / text screens
: >under Prodos (emulator) tonight ...
: >
: >It's a No-Go - what gives?  Does Prodos not allow
: >Bload filename,a1024  ???
:
: Like others have already mentioned, you've run into ProDOS'
memory
: protection system.
:
: I wrote an article that was published in the spring 1996 issue
of II
: Alive magazine about this and how to circumvent it.  The reason
I even
: researched this was because I was trying to convert some older,
single
: file DOS 3.3 games onto a 3.5" ProDOS floppy and some of them
tried to
: load themselves over the text screen.  I found out what caused
the "NO
: BUFFERS AVAILABLE" error and wrote a program launcher in
Applesoft
: that gave me the option to deprotect the text screen before
launching
: a program to avoid it.  The program launcher I wrote is called
: Selector v1.0 and is on the ground FTP site and maybe one or
two
: others as well.

Give me a little time and I'll un-Binscii the file and
put it on my web site downloads page. Later tonight.
There are also on Ground FTP, other versions of Selector,
but they are attributed to Tc Wilson. If these are other
variations of your selector I will also transfer those and
place them on the site.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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