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from: mdj
date: 2009-01-31 16:40:50
subject: Re: Auto-Start-Up Program in DOS 3.3/ProDOS?

On Feb 1, 9:52=A0am, "John B. Matthews"
 wrote:
> In article
> ,
>
> =A0lyricalnanoha  wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > ProDOS disks need the file PRODOS in the root directory (and if what
> > you're running isn't a SYS file, you'll need BASIC.SYSTEM too).
>
> For fun, the boot code in block 0 will load any SYS file to $2000 and
> begin executing it. The default name is PRODOS, but that can be changed:

A while ago, I was tempted to patch ProDOS itself to load the first
SYS file not named PRODOS instead of the first SYS file that ends
in .SYSTEM. I could never decided whether this 'convention' was due to
an internal argument over inband/outband metadata or was just an epic
fail, but I always wanted the 7 characters back :-)

Matt
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