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From: alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER)
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Subject: Re: Apple IIe SCSI Card. Is It Worth Using?
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.044832.10718@nevada.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 91 04:48:32 GMT
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In article <1991Apr20.231612.22116@nntp-server.caltech.edu> toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>What's going on is the actual file on disk is huge, but the file length is
>set to just the opening code...
>...Such loaders are almost definitely Disk ][ or Dos 3.3
>specific, and you are not going to be able to get them to work under ProDOS
>without patching them....

...or deleting them.  As you mentioned, the purpose of the loader was
to keep molasses-slow DOS 3.3 from loading the whole program in one
shot.  ProDOS is fast enough, though.  Once you have the complete file
on a ProDOS disk (fix the file length under DOS 3.3 to do this), just
BLOAD the file into place and find the end of the loader.  Once you've
found it, BSAVE it back to disk, sans loader.  It should now work with
no problems.

(I've even hacked some of the old games into SYS files that call the
ProDOS QUIT code when you hit Control-Reset.  Play a few rounds of
Pac-Man, for instance, and when you're sick of it, hit Control-Reset
and you're back in Davex.  Slick, ain't it? :-) )

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