Re: Apple iie card in an LCIII+

[gids.rs@sasktel.net]

The plus sign threw me.  There is no plus sign on a Mac computer.  The model numbers are LC II, LC III, LC 475.  But there is an Apple III+ (with the plus sign).

Here is my recommendation.

Before you can boot up you IIe card, it should ask for a disk drive to boot into.  I would remove the 2x Prodos partitions keep the hard drives totally formatted to HFS.

Get a copy of Disk Copy v6.3.3 and create a disk image.  Only some emulators will recognize this disk image format but it is not the standard disk image for emulators.  This disk image is for Mac only computers.

You can select the size of disk image you want up to 32 Mbytes.  You would then mount the image on the Mac desktop and format it to Prodos.  Copy the Prodos and Basic.system files onto the disk image, and you will have a bootable Prodos disk.  The only inconvenience you will have is that the disk image has to be mounted on the desktop before booting the IIe card.  But this way makes it extremely easy to transfer the image to other Mac computers.

Next, I would download one of the emulators that will run on your Mac.  There are 4 or 5.  Catakig, Fast Eddie, IIe v3.0, Gus, Bernie2theRescue (not sure about this one, it may require a Power Mac)

These emulators will then allow you to open the .dsk.disk images you download from the internet.  You may also be able to mount the disk image you created and transfer all files over.  This will give the IIe card access to those files.  It has to be done this way because a .dsk disk image cannot be mounted on a Mac desktop.

Also, be aware that .dsk images are almost always DOS 3.3 disks and not Prodos.  The majority of applesoft programs will work, but games that use the language card or take up the entire 48k of main memory need a work-around to work properly.

There is a DOS.system program that will allow you to run most DOS games from Prodos.

i will leave it at that for now

Rob