Re: Can't initialize Disk

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Gabriel Morales (Togega@Concentric.net) wrote:
: Hey folks,

: 	I'm trying to get an older Apple II up and running now. It came with an
: old DuoDisk which seems to work fine. I booted up from the "Apple
: Presents the IIe- Getting Down to BASIC" disk. All fine. I quit from the
: BASIC tutorial and it gave me a prompt.

: 	So, I wrote a little "Hello" program in BASIC, which ran fine, and
: tried to initialize a Double Density Radio Shack disk (Pre-formatted to
: MS-DOS) by typing the standard INIT HELLO. It gave me a syntax error. I
: tried it a few more times, along with some variations. It still gives me
: a syntax error. 

: 	Am I doing something wrong? I think I did the exact same thing the last
: time I initialized a 5.35" disk on a IIe.

I'll bet when you booted that disk it booted into ProDOS.

Floppy based system?  Get a DOS 3.3 System Master and go from there.  If
you get a hard drive, then you definately want to switch over to ProDOS.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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