Re: Apple 2c dos?

["Peter Ibbotson" <spambox@ibbotson.demon.co.uk>]

"Dosius" <steve@dosius.zzn.com> wrote in message
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> "Peter Ibbotson" <spambox@ibbotson.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:<b13cf3$o2$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk>...
> > Dunno. This would have been in a Apple Dealer circa 84 so it would have
been
> > very early, I'm sure the original disk is probably kicking around in my
> > parents loft somewhere. It may even have been a system boot disk that
came
> > with a //c rather than a demo. I remember it was bootable on a //e but
since
> > there was no mousetext it all looked rather odd (but it was the first
copy
> > of ProDOS I played with and I had to hack out the //c ID code to get it
to
> > boot) Sadly the demo disks (Except the Apple Presents for the //e) don't
> > appear to be around in any of the online archives. If you're set up to
do
> > easy ADT transfers then I'd love copies of what you have that will run
on an
> > original //c.
>
> "System Utilities" perhaps?
>
> I don't have ADT capabilities, but I do have real 140K disks I could
> make.  System Utilities I think I have in //e+//c and //c-only
> versions.  I don't have a lot of scratch 140K disks, but I'll see what
> I can do about a disk set.  E-mail me (there's no blocking on my
> e-mail address) and I'll see what I can do.


Thanks for the offer (Post across the atlantic for nostalgia gets
expensive), but I think I'll rescue the disks and manuals from my parents
some time (When I finish the spare bedroom and have some space). Somewhere I
have a half way decent Asteriods clone I wrote which I should be able to
finish off (no spaceships firing at you IIRC) and release under GPL.

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