Re: Apple IIe help

[wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)]

Kirk (kirk@m33access.com) wrote:
: The ProDOS that I seem to have is version 1.x and when I use the menu to
: identify drive 2 it will show a list of what's on the drive in "slot 6 drive
: 2" and I had check to see if there were errors on the disk and their isn't.
: It's ok.
: When I try typing CATALOG,D2 at the DOS prompt drive 2 comes on and then I
: get an I/O error.
: Once I get it to show what's on drive 2 how do I run it? Thanks for you
: reply!

The best way seems to by typing a hyphen (-) followed by the name of the
program you want to run.  I think that this will run BASIC, SYS and BIN files.
Though I must admit that I use this more out of habit, so some detail may
have slipped my mind.

Though there is something to be said for the LOAD command.  This will allow
you to load a BASIC program into memory, then LIST the program code and to
modify it to fit your needs.  Once you changed to program, type RUN to run
it and SAVE to save it.  Useful forms of the command are:

LOAD FILENAME
LIST                         lists entire program
LIST 100                     displays line 100
LIST 100,200                 lists lines 100 through 200
SAVE FILENAME
RUN

There are, of course, other variations.  There are also binary load (BLOAD)
and binary run (BRUN) and binary save (BSAVE), but these are a little more
complex since they actually save a chunk of the computer's memory to the
diskette.  In particular, I remember using it to load and save high resolution
graphics.

Have fun,
Byron.