Re: Prodos freezing

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

BluPhoenyx <bluphoenyx@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/19/2011 02:55 PM, kynrek wrote:
> > have an apple II+ with 64K and I am trying to use ADTPro 1.19 with an
> > audio cable. I have tried a PC and a macbook, and 2 different audio
> > cables and multiple volume levels. It pretty much always succeeds in
> > transering the PRODOS info and beeps. I hit 2000g and enter and it
> > shows PRODOS 8 v1.9 but there is no cursor available to type anything
> > and it's frozen. I have to hit control reset to get a prompt then I
> > try to load prodos audio client and it fails.
> >
> > any suggestions?
> 
> Try an earlier version of ProDOS. I don't recall the version offhand but
> at least one requires a 65c02.

ProDOS-8 2.0 and later require a 65C02.

1.3 also had a bug which meant it was only safe to use on a 65C02
(accidentally used a 65C02 instruction in the Disk ][ driver, if I
remember right). That was fixed in 1.4.

ProDOS-8 1.9 is the last version which runs on a 6502. That version had
a new program selector which only works on a IIe or later (it uses
80-column mode), but it reverts to the old "enter path and filename" one
on a II+. It should work fine.

Any version of ProDOS after 1.0.x requires a 64K Apple II, so perhaps
that II+ has a faulty language card? (That would normally produce a
"Relocation/Configuration Error" message, as would most RAM faults in
the main 48K area.)

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz