I got a head start on using the CFFA Volume for DOS from Vince Briel's Tech Support info. He has his DOS volume set up for disk #1. I prefer ProDOS stuff in disk #1 and DOS in disk #2. I extracted his ten DOS volumes and then built upon that.
I have a floppy drive set up for slot 5. I used a floppy with Davex to format a 128MB CF card, with the CFFA in slot 7. I formatted four drives: slots 7 with drives 1 and 2, and similarly for slot 4.
I used CiderPress to create a 32 MB po Volume (named CF), added Davex and my favorite ProDOS utilities, and then copied this Volume to the first Volume (used for Slot 7 – drive 1) on the CF card.
Using CiderPress I created a second 32MB po Volume (volume named DM and image filename “DM-200-560.po”) and copied a DOS.Master image into it. I then loaded DM-200-560.po into the GS emulator, KEGS32, as a simulated hard drive. I then loaded images of DOS program files into the KEGS32 drives and used FUD to copy them into the desired DOS volume.
As mentioned in the "Showcasing the Apple II" topic, the Basic program "TV Menu" on DOS volume 1 is then used to select between categories and thier programs. These DOS volumes are organized as shown in the DATA statements in the “DOS Showcase Programs” file in the “CFFA” folder at:
https://www.onlinefilefolder.com/index. ... um=1147686
The user ID and password is “publik.” Popup blocking has to be disabled to access this folder.
This procedure is laborious. An automated procedure would make life happier. Making the FUD Copy command executable from a basic program would be a step toward this.
An assembly file for FUD, named “FUDM”, that compiles under Merlin is also in the above folder. Both the source file “FUDM.S” and a Merlin disk “Merlin_FUDM.dsk” with the source file are in the online folder. To run the assembler, a ProDOS disk needs to be booted, disks swapped, and “–MERLIN.SYSTEM” typed. Load the file ”FUDM” and then enter the editor “E”. The file assembles with an “ASM” command. Merlin documentation is at http://www.textfiles.com/apple/DOCUMENTATION/ .
This is the status of my CFFA project to date. I’m at a point where I can showcase a reasonable representation of the Apple II world. Someone may want to add their own favorite programs to the volumes in the online folder for their own "Showcase" Apple II.
Tom