Re: Need 3.5" ProDOS Bootables for //c+

[noone@nowhere.net]

Roy:
I did say 'for the most part'.  I have several utilities that allow the 
use of larger media for DOS 3.3.  Natively the DOS handles up to a 400k 
volume, but most programs that run off of 5.35" diskettes do not support 
that model.  Way too many commercial programs require track sector 
access and do not use the DOS calls to handle files.

Take The Print Shop as the best/worse example.  It manually reads track 
11, sectors F through 1 when cataloging a disk.  If it did what it was 
supposed to, one could list a larger volume with all those graphic 
files. Technically it does load files properly so you can use an 
extended catalog to store extra files, but it will only list the files 
in the 'normal' 5.25" disk catalog sectors.  (Of course there is a patch 
in a back issue of Computist to fix this too.)  On top of that, The 
Print Shop's DOS has not been patched to recognize anything other than 
5.25" disks.  Which is really too bad.  I once tried to move the program 
to a different disk and the program could not run.  :(  (I'd still like 
PS on a 3.5" diskette with all those graphics.)

But I digress.

see the FAQ for more information about DOS 3.3:
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2DOSMM.html#022

Thankx,
Ed

Exegete wrote:
> Ed, you know very well that DOS 3.3 can work on 400K 3.5" disks. One of