Re: A Franklin and an Alltech Drive

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

me2@nowhere.org (Bart) wrote:

>>2. The hard drive may have ProDOS installed; but, the ProDOS may not have the
>>mod to work with a Franklin.
>>
>>
>Rubywand Thanks,
> I think this is the probable one:  I did a reset and issued a PR#7 w/o the 
>floppy controller or the CP/M drive in place and get a ProDOs 8 v2.0.3 splash 
>screen but no prompt.  A subsequent break shows a Basic progy fragment (that 
>will not run) in memory and all subsequent efforts result in a rolling loop at

>location c00 in memory.
>I do NOT have a bootable floppy DOS 3.3 or ProDOS and was hoping that a 
>bootable Hard drive would allow  me to make a bootable floppy.  No luck I see.

If you can get to the BASIC.System prompt via a control-C
break, then ProDOS works.  Most likely, the startup
program tries to run a program that requires a IIe or IIc
(as in a program that requires 128k or enhanced ROMs
or 65C02 CPU).

Don't try to run the program.  Just type CAT to list the
programs on the Focus drive and post what you find.  The
trick is to find a program on the disk that'll run on a II+
(which is what the Franklin Ace 1000 is a clone of) and
run that.

Then simply use that utility to format a 5.25 disk and
copy ProDOS and BASIC.System to it.  That'll then be
your boot disk.