Re: what OS should I use on an IIe hard disk

["Robert Collet" <collet@worldnet.att.net>]

Great, where exactly can the dos 3.3 launcher from or prodos 8? I check
apple's FTP site, and the had apple II system disk 3.2, but I dont know how
to transfer this to an apple II via ap222pc or adt.
Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> Robert Collet writes ...
> >
> > First some background:
> >
> >     The guy I worked for this summer used to teach electronics at a
public
> > school and was like their main computer guy. Consequently, he knows just
> > about everything about the IIe. Anyways, we used to talk tech about the
IIe,
> > and he would every once in awhile talk about his apple II setup, which
> > included, among other things, an 80 meg MFM hard disk and "enough memory
to
> > run appleworks completly from ramdisk" However, at the time he was
living in
> > temporary residency and left the IIe back at home.         Well,
yesterday I
> > found out he was moving up perminently and offered to give me all of his
IIe
> > stuff, which he said comes to about 1000 pounds :).(when I get all of
this
> > stuff, which might be as soon as this monday, I'll post a summary of it)
Of
> > course his setup will replace the IIe I use, and I plan to put all my
games
> > and whatnot on the hard disk. I know that I cant use  DOS 3.3 (which
most of
> > my games use) on a hard disk , so I guess I'll have to use prodos.
>
>      One way or another, this seems best. You may be able to run a number
of
> your DOS 3.3 wares from hard disk in disk image form using DOS 3.3
Launcher.
>
>
> >     I read the FAQs but I still have a few questions:
> > 1. Whats the best  version of prodos for a IIe?
>
>      For an enhanced file://e with hard disk, you would probably want
v2.0.3. This is
> the current version of ProDOS 8. For sending 5.25" diskettes to friends,
you
> would want to use v1.9 because this is the last version which can run on
64k
> Apple II's.
>
>
>
> > 2. Generally, how compatible is prodos with dos 3.3 ,especially games.
>
>      The commands as used in Applesoft BASIC programs are very similar,
often
> nearly identical. Small to medium Applesoft programs designed for DOS 3.3
will
> frequently run under ProDOS with no changes.
>
>      Commercial DOS 3.3 games (including copy-protected games which have
been
> deprotected) usually will not run correctly under ProDOS. Incompatibility
may be
> due to several factors: the game does CALLs to DOS 3.3's RWTS routine, the
game
> loads into parts of memory which are protected by ProDOS, the game uses
parts of
> Language Card memory needed by ProDOS, the game is too large to fit
beneath
> ProDOS in memory, ... .
>
>
>
> > 3. Can I run prodos programs from a GEOS environment? if not, is there
any
> > GEOS or GS/OS type GUI that I could use?
>
>      There is a double-hires (B/W) desktop program for ProDOS 8.
Supertimer is
> always hyping GEOS; so, he may have some thoughts on how well it functions
as a
> program launcher (I don't know). Some users like the non-graphical ProSel
> approach for managing access to lots of programs on a hard disk.
>
>
> > I dont know if this is the right place to ask, but I do have a spare
> > internal MFM hard disk that looks like it came out of a PC XT (except
its
> > half sized)
> > I doubt the hard card for the IIe can be plugged directly into it, but
are
> > there any schematics on how to plug an internal MFM hard disk into the
> > external plug?
>  ....
>
>      Don't know. If you have a Focus Hard Card drive, the easiest way to
upgrade
> size is to swap in a larger 2.5" IDE drive module.
>
>
>
>
> Rubywand