First Spear Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Wow. http://www.callapple.org/uncategorized/announcing-prodos-2-4-for-all-apple-ii-computers/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Shit.. You had to post this now when I'm getting ready to leave for the evening.. Couldn't you have waited till later or sump'in? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 The little tool MiniBAS that's on the disk is an alternative to BASIC.SYSTEM which I coded for those who might want to use the Selector as a program launcher, but don't need a full copy of BASIC.SYSTEM. It's just a stupid little tool but I thought it was worth writing. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sm3 Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 Oh, this is great! Something else to use with my Big Mess o' Wires Floppy Emu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 I saw the pre-release a while back (no idea where) but it was obviously missing some stuff.Nice to see it working on all machines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 (edited) Still can't do BASIC.SYSTEM on a II (not plus). Then again, who among us uses a II for any kind of work or play? Most of those are shelf queens and stuff. I suppose the biggest part of this is doing ProDOS on a 6502. I wonder what it would take to make AppleWorks on a II+? Not that it'd be practical or anything.. For one, there's the MouseText character set. Two, extra memory. Three, other rom routines? And not forgetting 80 columns.. Just a thought. Edited September 17, 2016 by Keatah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 I think there was a program called PlusWorks. You'd still need an 80-column card specific to the ][+ (something like a Videx Videoterm) and additional RAM. And the 128K cards for the ][+ don't bank compatibly with the //e. I guess in theory it might be possible to coax basic.system into working on an Integer ][ if you had a 32K RAM card, but you'd probably need a preload driver to replace the bank switching code inside ProDOS, as well as to load an Apple ][+ ROM onto the extra 16K. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 2.4.1's out 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 My "stuff" just about blew up when I was cruising through the disk and found it can do something I always wanted to do. Previously the task was full of tedium and annoyance. Let's play a game and see if you can figure out what it was I was trying to do. Sharp forum readers might even know it offhand. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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