Re: IIGs - Apple IIe programs

[John <jlogo@netspace.net.au>]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:28:30 GMT, David Schmenk
<dschmenk@GACH.gmail.com> wrote:


>>> Of course, it'll work just fine on 2 5.25" drives, but you'll wish you
>>> found 1.3 ...
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>> 
>> Has anyone been able to get Pascal 1.3 to boot off a 3.5" disk ?
>> 
>> 
>
>My Pascal 1.3 came on both 5.25" and 3.5" disks.  Have you tried 
>formatting a 3.5 and copying all the files to it? 

Yes

The boot process hangs.  I'm thinking there might be an issue with my
drive or the disks I'm using.

>successfully booted 1.3 off my CFFA, on a II+ no less.  You won't get 
>any ProDOS partitions (or it will trash the Pascal FS), but it makes for 
>a fine Pascal environment. I ran FORMATTER on APPLE3: and it did the 
>right thing.  I just copied everything over from floppy.  I would think 
>the same thing would work to a 3.5" destination.
>

Sounds good.  I'll try a format on another  3.5" drive (a unidisk).