ProFile 2068 AROS

The cartridge (AROS) edition of Thomas B. Woods’ Pro/File 2068, the BASIC and machine language information storage and retrieval database, configured specifically to run as a cartridge. The title screen reads “PRO/FILE 2068” and “© 1984 By THOMAS B. WOODS”. As in the tape version, each record is a page of up to 15 lines of 32 characters, and records are found by typing a search command.

Text in the image shows commands the tape version lacks: search words can be joined with AND, OR or NOT; DSAVE and DLOAD save and load the data, and PSAVE and PLOAD the program; \T appended to a search tallies the matches and \D deletes them as a block; CHAT changes the tally line; RST restarts with a new file, NN sets a new file name, CPR configures the printer and G runs custom commands.

The download has the image as a .dck file for emulators and as a raw ROM.bin. The image occupies the upper 16K of the dock bank (32768–49151) and holds a tokenised BASIC program with its machine code. On real hardware it was installed into non-volatile RAM in the cartridge slot with the installer tape Profile 2068 AROS; the tape-loading version is ProFile 2068.