Re: Franklin Ace DOS

[willi@wilserv.com (Willi Kusche)]

Hi!

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

    The two "FPBASIC" files are identical.  The Franklin version of
"INTBASIC" has '   ACE  ' at offset $2B0D instead of 'APPLE ]['.

    The ROMs are different.  I can send a 3264 byte file showing the
differences, if anyone is interested.

    Comparing the DOS would requiring the use of a sector compare to
show the differences.

Willi