Timeline for How to change what program Apple ProDOS 'starts' when booting
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| Jul 20, 2023 at 16:22 | comment | added | Geo... | Yea, it makes sense - I was a DOS3.3 guy, and never really embraced ProDOS (as I moved to focus more on my C64 at home, and later my Amiga 1000). Sometimes a feature or 'way of doing things' seems so obvious it's hard to believe it wasn't included back then. :-P | |
| Jul 19, 2023 at 17:10 | comment | added | bjb | @Geo... in reality, fadden's suggestion of using those tools to re-arrange the directory IS what we did back in the day. The ProDOS binary only searches for a .SYSTEM suffix. | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 17:01 | vote | accept | Geo... | ||
| Jul 17, 2023 at 17:01 | comment | added | Geo... | I'm marking this as the answer mostly because all proposed solutions dance around the same concept; which is to have a single SYSTEM file in the root directory or manually sort the files to move the preferred SYSTEM file to the top using a third-party tool. But I'm not going to do either of these things, because the RIFA capacitor in my power supply just let the magic smoke out, sigh. | |
| Jul 16, 2023 at 15:06 | history | edited | fadden | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
copying also works
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| Jul 16, 2023 at 4:34 | history | answered | fadden | CC BY-SA 4.0 |