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From: rchau@watrose.UUCP (rchau)
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Subject: Re: How to boot ProDos on Apple lookalikes?
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 02:51:49 EST
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> As far as I have heard, ProDOS looks into the high memory of the F8 ROM
> and into the ROM on the DISK CONTROLLER.  I was NOT under the impression
> that it looked at (or could look at) the details of the 16k card, except
> that it existed.
>   In order to use ProDOS with an Apple II clone, you would have to either
> patch the places where it looks in the cards, or buy gen-u-ine apple
> cards.  Personally, I think this was not such a great decision on
> Apple's part since it will deter the overall acceptance of ProDOS, but
> then we've been over this before, haven't we?
> 	Greg Dudek
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Inscribed within a few bytes of the F8 Rom are the familar words 
"APPLE II" ..... in keeping up with their promotional slogan of " forever "
if these bytes ( which are use at powerup  time to display the above)
is changes to any other fruit (ie. ORANGE II, PINEAPPLE II, or AL BABY II)
Prodos will promptly exit.