On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> lyricalnanoha wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, David Schmenk wrote:
>> 
>>> Why not save the global page in the high part of LC2, above
the quit code? 
>>> You should have enough space for that plus a little extra. 
You shouldn't 
>>> have to alter DOS 3.3 at all, but you could add to DOS a BYE
command that 
>>> restored the global page and returned to ProDOS.
>> 
>> Is that still true for e.g., ProDOS 8 v1.9 and later, or GS/OS?  (One of my 
>> tests is running The DOS Escape from GS/OS, and returning to the Finder.)
>> 
>> Also, this would have other uses: you can still access the MLI because the 
>> system page is intact.  Not really valuable, but it could have its uses.
>> 
>> Perhaps what I'll try to do is replace the INIT command altogether.
>> 
>> What I *really* want to do is rewrite the File Manager to just issue MLI 
>> calls.  With this, stuff could get pretty low-level into DOS 3.3 and still 
>> work on ProDOS.  (And I want to try something with The Prisoner on
it >:P)
>
> There were a fair number of DOS programs/games that made calls into the
> DOS RWTS.
>
> -michael

Hm.  Well, since I want to be "minimally invasive", the RWTS will prolly 
have to stay but with the format code diked out just like on The DOS 
Escape.  Then again a lot of the stuff I've broken BASIC.SYSTEM with is 
actually not doing anything with the disk.

-uso.
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