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Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II

From David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.apple2
Subject Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II
Date 2016-07-11 23:11 -0400
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On 7/11/2016 9:41 PM, roger.shimada@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, July 11, 2016 at 8:40:24 AM UTC-5, schmidtd wrote:
>> I am really sensitive about boot times, so I'd be unwilling to pay the
>> price to load _both_ and then discard one.
>
> Oh I know what you mean. I had considered writing a PRODOS that turned around and loaded PRODOS1 or PRODOS2.
>
> However to avoid needing custom boot blocks, it would mostly just be another copy of the boot blocks and I would like to avoid dealing with 5.25 disk code.
>
> Since it would be its own program it should provide proper error handling. (Such a program should initialize the text screen anyway, just to tell the user which ProDOS it's loading.)
>
> So I tried the simplest approach, which pleasantly surprised me when it worked.

Absolutely, I am in no way disagreeing with your approach.  I'm no 
stranger to custom boot code, so that's just the first place my mind went.

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Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II roger.shimada@gmail.com - 2016-07-09 20:42 -0700
  Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2016-07-10 01:30 -0500
    Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II roger.shimada@gmail.com - 2016-07-10 15:09 -0700
      Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2016-07-10 19:34 -0400
        Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-07-10 17:48 -0700
    Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> - 2016-07-11 09:40 -0400
      Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II roger.shimada@gmail.com - 2016-07-11 18:41 -0700
        Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> - 2016-07-11 23:11 -0400
  Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II Delfs <eeastman@gmail.com> - 2016-07-18 05:55 -0700
    Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> - 2016-07-18 07:34 -0700
      Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II John Brooks <jbrooks@blueshiftinc.com> - 2016-07-18 09:15 -0700
      Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II "Michael 'AppleWin Debugger Dev'" <michael.pohoreski@gmail.com> - 2016-07-18 10:23 -0700
        Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2016-07-18 11:27 -0700
          Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II John Brooks <jbrooks@blueshiftinc.com> - 2016-07-19 08:46 -0700
            Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II "Michael 'AppleWin Debugger Dev'" <michael.pohoreski@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 11:07 -0700
              Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II retrogear <larrygr510@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 11:42 -0700
                Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> - 2016-07-19 12:43 -0700
                Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II "Michael 'AppleWin Debugger Dev'" <michael.pohoreski@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 13:04 -0700
                Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2016-07-19 16:42 -0400
                Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II "Michael 'AppleWin Debugger Dev'" <michael.pohoreski@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 13:09 -0700
                Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2016-07-19 16:10 -0500
                Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II "Michael 'AppleWin Debugger Dev'" <michael.pohoreski@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 14:25 -0700
                Assembler optimizations, was Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2016-07-19 22:35 +0000
                Re: Assembler optimizations, was Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2016-07-19 23:28 -0500
                Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2016-07-19 23:28 -0500

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