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Re: Franklin Ace DOS



"Bryan Villados" <news003@macgeek.org> wrote in message news:<yKeFa.70247$S9.2001291@twister.socal.rr.com>...
> Hey, guys!
> 
> I booted Franklin Ace DOS on my IIe to see what happens. There's some funky
> code in the programs on the disk that apparently doesn't like to run on a
> non-Franklin Ace machine. For example, the COPY program reported a syntax
> error on a line that contained a string variable using lowercase characters
> as the variable name (in this case, "sv$").

Yeah, seen that.

> 
> Here's my question... Also on the Franklin Ace DOS disk are INTBASIC and
> FPBASIC. Are these files reverse-engineered from the original Apple code?
> Or, are these REALLY Apple files?
> 
> --- Bryan

They look like Apple files...when I get home I'll do a CALL -1184 and
see what happens.

-uso.