1. Does anyone know *all* the reserved ProDOS filetype codes?

2. Is anyone willing to help port ProDOS (and Applesoft BASIC) to the 8086?

Just minor questions.

dosius

DOSIUS wrote:

1. Does anyone know *all* the reserved ProDOS filetype codes?

I would suggest you ask that question in the A2Pro forum here on delphi. The company that runs that forum also runs A2Central, and they are now in control of assigning file types and the codes.

2. Is anyone willing to help port ProDOS (and Applesoft BASIC) to the 8086?

Gag, why? PC-DOS or DR-DOS, or Novell DOS are all far superior to ProDOS, ProDOS can't even use more than 128K on an Apple II while SOS on an Apple /// could use up to 512K, and that machine was using a 6502. In addition, BASICA or GW-BASIC could run rings around AppleSoft, having far more and better commands for graphics and sound, and allowing almost 64K for code and the ability to use about another 64K for machine language code to call. I love the Apple II (I'd better, I have every model except for the original) but the the IBM PC was designed to be a better Apple II, and while it was clunky in many ways, and little elegance to it, it did have some advances over the II, and DOS and BASIC were some of those advances.

Exegete AKA Roy Miller
Faith Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Apple ][ forever!

That is, an OS compatible with ProDOS and perhaps an enhancement of Applesoft BASIC. ProDOS 16 or GS-OS was a pretty good system...

DOSIUS wrote:
That is, an OS compatible with ProDOS

ProDOS was a stripped down version of SOS. IBM's 5.25 and 3.5 disks (720s) areradically different. What you would really want is the card that Tandy sold that added to an IBM an Apple's hardware, and used the IBM's display and disks as resource.s

and perhaps an enhancement of Applesoft BASIC.
ProDOS didn't it's own command line interface. BASIC.SYSTEM served that function.

ProDOS 16
or GS-OS was a pretty good system...

GS/OS 6.0 was a VERY good system, as was 5.x. ProDOS 16 and GS/OS 4.0 were much too slow.

Exegete AKA Roy Miller
Faith Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Apple ][ forever!