Re: Help! with Apple ][ plus

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Mitchell Spector wrote:

> In article stevewhite@spammers.are.scum.com (Steve White) writes...
>
> >Second, a ][+ won't boot a ProDos disk. You need Dos 3.3, or alternately,
> >the old Apple Pascal disk system. Check the label on the disk.
>
>     Wrong. An Apple II Plus can run ProDOS, on condition at least
> 64K of RAM is present (48K on motherboard with 16K Language Card)
> and that it has the Applesoft BASIC ROMs--although that is really
> what separates the II Plus from the II. The exception to that is
> ProDOS v1.0 through v1.0.2, which would boot on a 48K machine but
> fairly useless since there wasn't much you could run (I believe
> even BASIC.SYSTEM wouldn't run unless there was 64K).
>
>     With a 64K Apple II Plus you could run up to ProDOS 8 v1.9,
> and by adding a 65C02, you could probably get away with running
> ProDOS 8 v2.0.x (or v1.3 specifically, which accidentally added
> an illegal 65C02 call, though generally that version should be
> avoided because it can corrupt disks with a 6502 present).
>
> Mitchell Spector
> spec@vax2.concordia.ca

Also if you have a TransWarp accellerator in your II+ you can use
ProDOS 8 v2.0.3

     Wayne