Re: More of Focus drive

[david@uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)]

LOSETHECAPITALWORDSedhel@bigfoot.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.) writes:

>On 14 Aug 1997 15:57:57 -0600, casa@unm.edu (Jim Pittman) wrote:

>>The drive will work fine in Slot 7 of the non-enhanced Apple IIe if
>>we put a bootable 5.25" disk in Slot 6 Drive 1 that has a one-line
>>Applesoft startup program:
>>
>>   10 PRINT CHR$(4);"PR#7"

>If you have a sector editor, make a 5.25" disk with these first 3
>bytes (as in, they belong at the beginning of track 0, sector 0):

>4C 00 C7

>This will boot slot seven when booted--PRONTO!  It should, anyway...
>I remember giving this advice before, and somebody said another byte
>is needed first...maybe it was 01?

Yes, it will need an 01 in front. The 01 is how many sectors to load
(starting at $800 in RAM) and the boot ROM jumps to $801 after that
many are loaded.
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David Wilson	Dept CompSci Uni Wollongong Australia	david@cs.uow.edu.au