Re: trying to get an Apple II GS going for fun...

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wizard@direct.ca (Astro) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>>Try going into the one of the control panels (Display or
>>General, I think) and change the double-click speed. 
>
>Absolutely Correct. The mouse handles perfectly now! I also found out
>you can jump into the control panel at any time, not just at startup.
>Which means you can adjust the controls on the fly, good for accessing
>the System Speed feature to slow down the emulator for Apple IIe
>emulation.

Right.  The control panel has two interfaces.  One is text for
compatibility with IIe emulation.  The other is graphic and is
under the Apple menu (like the Mac) but can only be used
under GS/OS based desktop applications.  I think the graphic
one is more functional in that there are more third party
control panels available (such as one enabling the use of
TrueType fonts on the IIGS and another that control add on
caching CPU cards such as the Zip GS which provides 64k
of cache and CPU speeds five to six times faster than the
IIGS' regular "fast" mode).

>When you are at the ProDOS command line and you "CATALOG" and there
>are folders in the CATALOG, how do you enter the folder, or can that
>only be done from GS/OS [I know for sure it can be done there]...

You can do it from ProDOS.  First thing to remember is the
command "PR#3."  This rather cryptic command changes the
screen resolution to something approximating that of the DOS
command line on a PC.  The low resolution mode that
ProDOS 8's BASIC.SYSTEM normally dumps you into is not
sufficient to display the catalog correctly.*

Second, a crash course on ProDOS 8 BASIC.SYSTEM shell
commands for the MS-DOS user:

PREFIX functions like CD.  Prefix Apple sets the directory
prefix to the folder called Apple on the root directory.

The file delimeter is "/" not "\" as it is in MS-DOS.

CATALOG functions like DIR.

DELETE functions like ERASE.

RENAME functions the same way as in MS-DOS.

* In an interview with one of the major Apple II magazines in
the 1980s, Wozniak revealed that ProDOS for the IIe booted
into the low res 40 column text mode to make it look "less
business-like" because Steve Jobs didn't want it to compete
with his baby, the Apple III.  The III flopped.  Jobs then pushed
the Lisa.  The Lisa flopped.  Jobs then pushed the Mac, which
finally succeeded.  Jobs then killed the Apple II.  Wozniak
had built the II by hand and Jobs was always jealous and
worked in every way possible to kill the II.  Today, Wozniak
and Jobs are no longer on speaking terms after Wozniak
found out Jobs lied to him about how much the early Apple
Computers Inc. made in profits (Woz didn't get his fair share).