Re: My new IIgs has some new toys! Apple Pascal driver for Microdrive?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Hans Otten writes ...
> 
> Thanks to a german seller of a ROM03 Apple IIgs, and the addition of a
> MicroDrive and RAM4GS card with 4 MB, I now have a very  capable Apple IIgs.
> 
> The RAM4GS is sold to me by Bill Garber of GarberStreet Enterprizez
> http://garberstreet.netfirms.com and is a perfect RAM card.
> He also sold me a Microdrive with a IDE disk and made it a turnkey system!
> Highly recommended, nice to do business with him!
> 
> My other IIgs, a ROM01 system with  MB memory card, also runs 
> fine in DOS 3.3,
> Prodos and with Apple Pascal 1.3. Slow with floppies compared
> to the Microdrive!
> Some pictures can be found on my website.
> 
> Anyone know of a Apple PAscaldriver for the MicroDrive?
> 
 ....

     Most likely, what you need is the File System Translator (FST) for Pascal.
It's named "Pascal.FST" and belongs in the SYSTEM/FSTS/ folder of your boot
volume. It is included in full system distributions of GS System 6.0.1.

     For info on obtaining System 6.0.1, see ...

http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2APPLICS.html#018
ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/Formatted/Csa21MAIN4.txt



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