Re: How do I start ProDos?

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 16:11:26 +0200, Linards Ticmanis wrote:

> Stephen Shaw wrote:
>> Anything under Version 2 should work. Version 2 and upwards required bigger
>> memory. Someone if the group should have a copy of 1.4, 1.1 etc.
>>
>> On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 01:36:49 +0100, Steve Maughan wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi, How do I start ProDos? I've got a ProDos Users Disc - is the the
>>>correct disk to start ProDos? I've tried sticking it in the drive at
>>>bootup, but it doesn't ever load anything... I've got a apple ][
>>>europlus...
>>>
>>
>
> You do need 64K for everything above 1.0 (or maybe 1.1 ?) as far as I
> know, so you must have a language card in your Apple II+. The problem
> with version 2.0 and above is not memory but the fact that it needs a
> 65C02 processor, so it requires at least an enhanced IIe, or a II+ with
> the processor chip swapped for a 65C02.
>
> Also somewhere between 1.1 and 1.9 (I do not have any versions in
> between) they started requiring a IIe 80 column mode for the system
> utilities.
>
> If anybody has a version of ProDOS later than the original 1984(?)
> release but earlier than 1.9 it would be very nice of you to upload it
> to asimov or another archive site as I would like to know which version
> was the last to completely work on a 64K II+, system utilities included.

Linards I would say Version 1.9. I have V1.9 here but don't know if it is
official or just somebody messing around with a sector editor.


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