Re: Apple ][ boot disk

[Bill Hicks <billwebzcpm@gmail.com>]

On Jan 1, 3:40 pm, Steve Nickolas
<lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:
> Replying to myself because I figured I'd explain it.
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> On Sun, 1 Jan 2012, Steve Nickolas wrote:
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> > On Sun, 1 Jan 2012, Bill Hicks wrote:
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> >> Ok so holding down enter when turning it on brings up the same error
> >> and then goes to the ML monitor prompt '*'. Pressing CTRL C and enter
> >> takes me to the basic prompt ']', but no matter what it type it will
> >> beep after I hit enter and go back to the ML prompt.
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> >> Is this normal? The last time I used an apple 2 was 30 years ago in
> >> 10th grade. I used to know a lot about he,, now not as much I appears.
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> >> Bill H
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> > Try Ctrl-B instead.
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> > -uso.
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> The Laser monitor, while very different under the hood from Apple's, uses
> the same commands as Apple's.  On Apple's monitor, Ctrl-C does a "warm
> restart" of BASIC by jumping to $E003, and Ctrl-B does a "cold restart" by
> jumping to $E000.
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> If Applesoft BASIC hasn't had a chance to initialize itself, then when you
> hit Enter, it tries to execute code that hasn't been placed in
> memory...and therefore it hits a BRK and crashes back into the monitor.
> This is why you have to use Ctrl-B.
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> -uso.
Thanks Steve, CTRL B worked. Have a few keys that I need to clean,
have to bang them hard to get a response, wonder if they just pop
off?

What diskettes does this take? DSDD?

Bill H