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   Message 54,979 of 56,720   
   alupin65@gmail.com to Steve Nickolas   
   Re: ProDOS port request   
   15 Sep 21 17:59:22   
   
   From: alup...@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, September 16, 2021 at 1:40:25 AM UTC+8, Steve Nickolas wrote:   
   > On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, qkumba wrote:   
   >   
   > >> Many thanks in advance. Also please make them all HD installable/playable   
   if that's not your goal already.   
   > >   
   > > That comes for free with the ProDOS port. Since they're files, you can   
   just copy them to a hard disk and run from there.   
   > > Check the "new ProDOS ports" thread for announcements. Pool of Radiance is   
   done.   
   > >   
   > In fact, this is the reason I started doing ProDOS ports.   
   >   
   > ProDOS is pretty much device-agnostic, and if a program simply uses ProDOS   
   > calls to access the disk, it can use any drive that works with. I knew   
   > that 5.25" disks would ultimately fail, that drives from the time period   
   > would ultimate fail, that people would ultimately be using modern devices   
   > instead - and knew that DOS 3.3 file cracks would often not work on   
   > ProDOS, so I decided to try to start doing ProDOS file cracks.   
   >   
   > (I haven't done nearly the quantity or quality of these cracks as qkumba   
   > did, but since I did have skin in the game I figured I'd jump in with my   
   > two cents.)   
   >   
   > -uso.   
      
   Well said, gents, and I appreciate very much your efforts to help me   
   experience my childhood joy again.  Two thumbs up totally!   
      
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