Re: Apple 2c dos?

[sladed@telusplanet.net (Slade)]

"Peter Ibbotson" <spambox@ibbotson.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<b0of1o$bp4$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>...
 
> You're in the same boat I was a few weeks ago. The answer is as follows:
> 
> a) Build a serial cable (Old AT Keyboards are a great source of prewired 5
> pin din sockets)
> b) Transfer DOS over to the Apple2, the instructions in the file
> DOS33DMP.ZIP worked for me (The Apple2 FAQ has information on where to find
> this) The End of line pause is CRITICAL it didn't work for me without it.
> c) Format your floppy
> d) Reboot
> e) Use adt122 to transfer over a version of dos you want (The Apple2 FAQ has
> information on this)
> 
> It's important to use LOW DENSITY 5 1/4 disks the high density ones I tried
> first failed miserably. I had to rummage around until I found a VGA card
> driver disk from 1990 to make it work. Low density floppies usually have
> reinforcing ring around the hole in middle of the disk. (You may have
> problems with ADT at high speeds with the original //c hardware but you
> should be able to get a basic boot disk as that is done at 300bps)

    I'll give this a try. Thanks, I appreciate the help.

    Slade