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Re: Modifying DOS 3.3 (like UniDOS) to support 4x360K disks
- Subject: Re: Modifying DOS 3.3 (like UniDOS) to support 4x360K disks
- From: Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:29:58 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.emulators.apple2, comp.sys.apple2.programmer, comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com
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Dosius writes ...
>
> Would it be possible, or feasible, to create some kind of a DOS 3.3
> hack to do 3.5" disks - like UniDOS - but divvy the disk into 4 chunks
> of 360K instead of 2 chunks of 400K, so as to best use a 1.40MB disk?
> I would like to get a number of games on a 1.40MB disk, and I can fit
> more in 1.40MB than in 800K (the limit for UniDOS).
>
....
So far, all of the special 3.5" mods for DOS 3.3 run into the same
problem. There's zilch support software.
A good alternative is DOS 3.3 Launcher. (See
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2DOSMM.html#022 .)
Rubywand