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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi listers:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I just successfully created a 3.5 AMDOS disk.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If anyone doesn’t know what this is, and, I doubt it, it is a version of DOS 3.3 which is modified to work on a 3.5 inch disk. It takes the 800K and divides it up into 2 400K volumes, accessed by using d1 and d3 for the first and second volumes respectively.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I tried doing it under MAME with the IIGS, but, that didn’t work.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But, I used a copy of GSPlus that I had laying around and it seems to have done it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I used Ciderpress to copy the files from the 3.1.3 TexTalker for DOS 3.3, and it seems to have done it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It boots up under MAME with the IIGS 3.5 drive (-flop3 switch), but, and even more interesting, boots up with the cffa2 device with the APPLE II E. Booted it from slot 7 under MAME.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now I’ve got to modify FID to have a working copy. Hope the instructions I have are still good.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There was supposed to be a file I could exec to do it, but, it wasn’t on the amdos disk I got from Asimov. So, hopefully, the instructions were faithfully copied.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you want to play with this, I’ll supply a dropbox link here. I am going to try to get FID working tomorrow with it, but, this is just the disk with the TexTalker 3.1.3 files on it. Here’s the link:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/4ncg584rkdezctm/amdostest.po?dl=1">https://www.dropbox.com/s/4ncg584rkdezctm/amdostest.po?dl=1</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ll update if I get a working copy of FID and add it to the image.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I make no guarantees on this one, but, it seems to work.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>More later!<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>