Re: Someone Please help...

[David Schmidt <dschmidt@bnr.ca>]

rubywand@aol.com (RUBYWAND) wrote:
>
>In article <bert-2812961836210001@news.ncinter.net>, bert@ncinter.net
>(Robert Schultz) writes:
>
>>
>>I've asked lots of people on IRC, and looked around the WWW, but I can
>not
>>find anything on how to use prodos. I can boot prodos up ok, and I want
>to
>>play a game. I have prodos in drive 1, and Legacy of the ancients disk 1
>>in drive 2. I can do a CAT and get drive 2's listings, but I don't know
>>what to run or how.
>
>
>     Legacy of the Ancients was, as far as I know, released only in a
>protected DOS 3.3 version. You are not likely to get far trying to launch
>the game under ProDOS.
>
>     Try sticking Game Disk 1 into Drive 1 and doing a boot.
>
>
>

Perhaps it's a cracked version???

Assuming the CAT output looks somewhat like English (no weird characters or
attributes), you'll need to find out what the starting program is.  It should
be listed on your CAT output.

LEGACY, or START would be good choices (I've never played it) and HELLO is also
a traditional starting program name on Apple ][s.  To try one of them in
ProDOS, type:

- [filename]

(Don't really type the [ and ], but DO type the -).  If you pick a wrong file,
you could lock up the machine and have to reset.  Booting the disk as another
poster mentions (IN#6 or the more standard PR#6) is also a good try.

Good luck!

David S.