Re: apple II hangs at system monitor. please help

[percim@odyssee.net (Mark Percival)]

On Fri, 06 Dec 1996 02:16:00 GMT, davidoki@arrk.com wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>My friend has an Apple II.  He can't get it out of system
>monitor mode.  Can anybody help me or at least point me
>to some way of finding who can help?

...<snip>...

>When he turns on the computer, he gets a screenful of
>garbage characters (which is normal for Apple II's without
>autostart ROM).  Then he gets the system monitor prompt,
>an asterisk (*).

This is normal for an Apple II.

>He types a control character, then 3D0G.  (I'm sorry, but
>I forget what control character it was.  But he followed the 
>instructions in the back of the manual for Apple II's that
>don't have auto-start ROM.)  Then he presses
>"return" and expects to get into integer basic.
>
>But instead, it shows the contents of a few registers and
>then stops.

This is because the address 3D0 is the link to the disk operating system which
he hasn't loaded yet.  You need to do the following;

1) Load a bootable diskette in the drive.
2) from your monitor prompt (*) type 6<ctrl>p

This will boot the diskette.

An alternate would be to enter <ctrl>b from the monitor prompt to bring you to
the Integer basic prompt without a DOS loaded.  Then doing "PR#6" will boot the
diskette.

Anymore questions, e-mail me.....

Mark Percival
Montreal, Quebec
percim@odyssee.net

An Apple II fanatic since 1979