Re: Apple ][c+ Questions

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article ab616@chebucto.ns.ca (Tony Cianfaglione) writes...

[Talk about using an external 5.25 on an Apple IIc Plus]

>Anything you find on 5.25" (masters) that use timing cycles (like many games)
>will not run properly because you cannot boot from the external 5.25" drive 
>and keep the 1 mhz clock cycle.  If it runs at 4 mhz, the games will mess up.

    This is wrong. If no disk is present in the built-in 3.5 drive, the
Apple IIc Plus will immediately search any drives connected to the disk 
port (including 5.25 drives). The effective speed will be ~4 MHz, but the
machine does slow down to 1.024 MHz each time the drive is accessed. To
keep it at 1.024 MHz though (so that games play as they would on a stock 
Apple II) simply requires you hold down the 'ESC' key.

    So leave the internal 3.5 drive empty, insert the 5.25" diskette in 
the external drive and then press Apple-Control-Esc-Reset. The proper way 
to do it is to hold down the first three keys, then press and release
'Reset' while still holding down the others. The words "Normal" should
appear on screen.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca