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What are they booting? It says "Dos 3.3" but it has the cd command, directories and backslash separators.
by curtisblaine 3y ago
What are they booting? It says "Dos 3.3" but it has the cd command, directories and backslash separators.
- pvg 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_DOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_DOS
- curtisblaine 3y agoBut as far as I know Apple DOS does not have directories (PRODos has), and neither have the cd command.
- pvg 3y agoAh, I misunderstood what you were asking. You mean the interface right at the start of the video, right? I don't know what that is, I assume some sort of custom firmware and/or hardware?
- deater 3y agoIt's a fake BIOS/DOS bootscreen to parody the startup of the original DOS demo (the c64 version of the demo does something similar). It says DOS3.3 as a joke, because Apple DOS3.3 was a real, long-running operating system for the Apple II that predates MSDOS. The actual demo runs no operating system at all, it's a custom bootsector designed by qkumba that can load arbitrary tracks off of a raw Disk][ floppy and is much faster than DOS3.3 or ProDOS and also requires very little memory overhead.
- curtisblaine 3y agoThanks. I remember AppleDOS 3.3, and I remember it had no concept of directories (you had to use ProDOS for that, which didn't use the cd command anyway).