Re: Your Tips for New Apple Users

[Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, D Finnigan wrote:

> - drive 2 doesn't boot

   It does on a 255 IIc; this function was removed with the second rom 
version (ROM0) to make room for the never functioning AppleTalk.  PR#7 
booted Drive 2 on the 255.  A friend had a 255 IIc with a bad built-in 
drive and he booted constantly off drive 2 for years.

   My tips would be:

1. Use CATALOG in ProDOS to get a more complete catalog listing of the 
disk; CAT only gives you a partial listing.

2. Use the - (hyphen) key to run programs in ProDOS; for example 
'-startup'.

3. On a IIc (anyway), using the ESC key while editing BASIC programs 
allows you to move the cursor all over the screen without entering the 
data you're moving over.  This is great when you need to enter a long 
sequence over and over again without having to retype it - just ESC to the 
beginning of the old line, press ESC again, read in the line you want 
duplicated and then press RETURN.  Make sure you give the rescanned line a 
new line number to separate it from the old line.

4. Utilities are your friend.  It's absolutely amazing the amount of great 
utilities for the II: GSCII+, GShk, BinSCII, PMPUnZip, SlotScan, G.U.P.P., 
DiskMaker, Asimov, ADT, Locksmith, Davex, ProSel, CopyIIPlus, just to name 
a few.