Re: Applesoft Basic

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff)]

sheercon (sheercon@earthlink.net) wrote:

: Actually, I was trying the, "CAT" command on an Apple III via it's Apple IIe
: emulation mode. It kept getting, "Syntax error". This looked like a basic prompt to
: me so I wrote a quick basic program saying my name 10 times on the screen and that
: worked fine. For some reason the disk commands just don't work...

I played with a III exactly once, about 15 years ago, and I was running
the ][+ emulation at the time.

I seem to recall that once you start the emulator, you still need to boot
your A][ disk.  I think all the emulator did was to patch in a copy of the
][+ ROM and character set, and from there you still needed to swap to the
][+ disk and boot it.  It may be that you're looking at an Applesoft BASIC
prompt but you have no operating system loaded. 

Try booting the emulator, then inserting a DOS 3.3 System Master (if you
can find one) and issuing a...

]PR#6

Then, once that boots, try doing a 

]CATALOG

and see if that works properly.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.


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