Re: more gs questions

[Roy Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

william strutts wrote:

> "doug holverson" <dholvrsn@netins.net> wrote in message
> B770B31B.6D032%dholvrsn@netins.net">news:B770B31B.6D032%dholvrsn@netins.net...
> > I got one of my freebee Apple II GS's to run, booting off a floppy called
> > "Start-up". However all it does is start up in ProDOS 8 V1.2 and then
> > immediately automatically loads a 1986 version of Appleworks. What to I
> need
> > to learn and do before I can do something useful with this thing?
> >
>
> That must be a Appleworks boot disk.  When you exit to
> Prodos, you can tell it what app to load after that.  Select
> Basic.system as the application to load.  That will get you
> back to the Prodos prompt.  You can find out the contents
> of a disk using
>
> CAT,S#,D#

Or Doug, you could read the catalog from AppleWorks. It's been too long since
I've used version 2.x, but in version 3, you select from the menu, "Other
activities" and there is another menu that lists the catalog.

As far as "something useful", well AppleWorks IS useful, even old versions like
2.0. Of course, there's nothing like more software, is there?

Roy

>
>
> For a 3.5 disk, the disk drive is in S5 and for a 5.25 is in S6.
> If there is only one of each drive, then you would only have a D1
> for each size.  The second drive of each type is D2.  Make sure
> that the 3.5" drives are connected first before the 5.25" drives.
>
> For a directory of a 3.5 use:  CAT,S5,D1
> For a directory of a 5.25 use: CAT S6,D1
>
> Using Command(Apple)/Control/Escape will take you into the
> control panel.  This is often useful later to set RAM disk and
> the clock.
>
> Look for the utility:  UTILITY.SYSTEM on one of your prodos
> disk.  This will let you copy files and format disk.  To run it,
> you would enter a dash before the name:
>
> -UTILITY.SYSTEM
>
> Then format a disk and copy these files to the new disk to make
> a clean boot disk:
>
> BASIC.SYSTEM
> PRODOS
>
> Then boot the computer using this disk.  From there you can then
> download stuff to your PC and using a serial port null modem, transfer
> disk images to your computer.  Do you have a stock PC?   Using
> the disk images, you can then make actual working disk.  Do you
> have any blank floppies available?
>
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