Re: Apple Desktop II on a IIe card?

[Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca>]

Keep a mouse attached to the IIc+ and press the button every time you want
to change disks.  The drive will stop running while the mouse button is
depressed.

-------------------------------

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Lockar wrote:

>        That's odd that it will not work on your Apple //c+.  That's how
> I discovered that it works on the Apple //c+ years ago.  I ran it on an
> old GSOS disk, and thought hmm.. What would happen if I moved some
> files around and tried to run it on my Apple //c+.  It worked, but like
> I said in my earlier post it keeps the the internal 3.5 drive running. 
> MouseDesk and Catalyst do the same thing.  From what I was told it has
> something about do the way Apple handeled the 3.5 drive in that
> computer.
> 
>     Maybe you need a fresh copy.  I would be willing to shrink a verion
> I have from a dev CD to see if that fixes your problem.
> 
> 
>      -Lockar
> 
> 
> 
> In article <1g7qngm.1vva2aoel3mx0N%spam@luddite.ca>, Simon Williams
> <spam@luddite.ca> wrote:
> 
> > I've found that Apple II Desktop 1.1 works great on a system with only
> > floppy drives, but I've had some lousy experiences trying to use it with
> > a hard drive. I have 6 x 27 MB ProDOS partitions, 2 x 3.5" and 1 x 5.25"
> > floppies, so I'm well under the volume limit. I've found that when
> > copying multiple files to or from the HD, A2Desktop often crashes,
> > though I've never had this happen with floppies. Generally after a
> > crash, I have had to run Prosel's volume repair utilities to restore
> > order.
> > A2Desktop also won't work on my //c+, though I've no way to tell if it
> > is a bug in the software or possibly a problem with the computer.
> > -simon
> 
> 
>