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Re: How do I start ProDos?



Stephen Shaw wrote:
Anything under Version 2 should work. Version 2 and upwards required bigger
memory. Someone if the group should have a copy of 1.4, 1.1 etc.

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 01:36:49 +0100, Steve Maughan wrote:


Hi, How do I start ProDos? I've got a ProDos Users Disc - is the the
correct disk to start ProDos? I've tried sticking it in the drive at
bootup, but it doesn't ever load anything... I've got a apple ][
europlus...



You do need 64K for everything above 1.0 (or maybe 1.1 ?) as far as I know, so you must have a language card in your Apple II+. The problem with version 2.0 and above is not memory but the fact that it needs a 65C02 processor, so it requires at least an enhanced IIe, or a II+ with the processor chip swapped for a 65C02.

Also somewhere between 1.1 and 1.9 (I do not have any versions in between) they started requiring a IIe 80 column mode for the system utilities.

If anybody has a version of ProDOS later than the original 1984(?) release but earlier than 1.9 it would be very nice of you to upload it to asimov or another archive site as I would like to know which version was the last to completely work on a 64K II+, system utilities included.

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