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Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II

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In article <alpine.BSF.2.02.1607101934050.47777@frieza.hoshinet.org>,
 Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jul 2016, roger.shimada@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 1:30:12 AM UTC-5, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> >> what is the benefit to selecting a ProDOS version dynamically?
> >
> > It's mainly there for testing. This is from Virtual II as a II+:
> >
> >
> >                A00,% II
> >
> >     P2/DOS 8 V2.0.3      06-M!9-93
> >
> >  REQUIRES ENHANCED APPLE IIE OR LATER
> >
> >
> >
> > C/092)'(4 A00,% C/-054%2, I.#., 1983-93
> >          A,, R)'(43 R%3%26%$.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, the major benefit of ProDOS 2 is the automatic 
> > mapping of more than 2 SmartPort volumes on a device to character slots. 
> > (Useful on old CFFA cards; I don't know how the CFFA3000 deals with this.)
> >
> 
> It actually doesn't need an Enhanced //e, only a 65SC02, 65C02 or 65816.
> 
> -uso.

And lowercase/mousetext character set ROM. (Unless you don't care about 
the "garble" as shown above) 

The ROM and the "65C02-alike" processor is the difference between a "not 
enhanced" and "enhanced" //e

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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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