Re: Apple IIe problem

[louiss@gate.net (Louis Schulman)]

In <32601688.165592030@news.bright.net>, pceagle@mail.bright.net (pc campbell) writes:
>Can someone tell me what it means when you have a Apple IIe, dual
>5 1/4" drives, you put the disk in the drive, power it up and after
>Apple IIe comes on the screen  the cursor comes up then it says
>'language not available' and then the cursor comes back up.
>
>The disk says 1981 and DOS  3.2/3.3.  The disk also says
>master disk and is file protected.  Have several disks that do this.
>May sound like a stupid question, but I am new to this system
>and could use some help on this.  No manuals available.
>
>thanks
>
>pc
>
Generally, the message means what it says.  E.G., you are trying to run a program
written in Pascal, but haven't loaded Pascal support.  Or in this case, you might
be trying to run a progam in Integer Basic, and you only have Applesoft Basic.

I am not certain what your disk is, unless it is a conversion program.  DOS3.2 was
for 13-sector disks, and DOS3.3 is for 16-sector disks.  The disk would have to
be formatted one way or the other.

It is possible you are trying to read 13-sector disks with a 16-sector controller,
but I think the error message would be different.

I think the lack of Integer Basic is the problem here.  If so, you need a way to get
it on the disk, or you need a newer disk that uses Applesoft.

Louis