Re: Looking for program, does it exist?

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

noone@nowhere.net wrote in message news:<3DADC71F.F263AF8E@nowhere.net>...
> The was a program called ProFix that allowed you to store/run DOS 3.3
> disks on a ProDOS volume.  I am not sure it worked on a II+, but it might
> be a good starting point for your search.  I believe that Applelinc got
> the rights to the software when the developer discontinued it's Apple II
> operations here in Lincoln.  We got most of their equipment and disks back
> in January of 2001 along with a verbal affirmation of software usage
> rights, but never anything in writing.
> 
> I know there were some issue running ProDOS on a II+, and I can't say one
> way or the other whether this program required the 65c02 opcodes so buyer
> beware.

AFAIK ProDOS should be fine on ][+ up to 1.9 (if the LC is
installed)...but Dapple doesn't run 2.03 even though it emulates a
C02??? :)

> 
> See "Bill demo'd the ProFIX program":
> http://www.applelinc.org/meetings/200104.htm
> 
> Send Applelinc feedback if you want more information about this program,
> at  the next meeting we may be able to pull our informaiton together and
> maybe try it on a II+.
> 

Dapple, which emulates a ][+, has a core with working (barely) C02
functionality.  It *almost* emulates the //e but it's so buggy as to
be worthless in that regard.  Since its disk access was slow (and
since I got a suggestion) I wrote some code, derived from existing HDD
support code, to raw-manipulate a 1.44MB disk in the PC A: drive as if
it were an Apple disk in Slot 5, Drive 1.  2880 blocks, that's mucho
storage. :�