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Subject: spartados/turbobasic/superdos
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Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 18:06:08 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  2 18:06:08 1987
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TURBO BASIC

  - is there a patch yet to correct the time functions for North
     America?  (I tried the one someone posted here before, no go)
  - how do you load handlers with it?
  - anybody got any notes on how it uses memory?

SPARTADOS

Thanks to all those who answered my questions on Spartados
and the US doubler... I bought it and am very pleased.

I would say this is the height of the art of Atari command line DOS's,
with batches, time/date stamp on files, and a few great utilities.

Now I need MORE utilities..anybody got a boot sector, high speed binary 
loader?  other goodies?

SUPERDOS

I got an 'incidental' copy of this DOS on a traded disk.  I have not seen
it advertised... anyone know its origin?  It has a high speed skew format
option.  You need some additional hardware I guess, because it doesn't work
with the US doubler I have.

The interesting thing is, it works at high speed if you format with
Sparta/US doubler!  You only have to copy sector 360 from an empty formatted
Atari DOS disk to your Sparta formatted disk, then you boot Superdos
and write it to the new disk (menu "H").  Then all reads and writes under 
Superdos happen at high speed.  That's great with Turbo basic, which you 
can't use with Spartados (memory conflicts).


				Dick Curzon
				Digital Equipment of Canada
                                PO Box 13000
                                Kanata Ontario      K2K 2A6
                                Canada.

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