Re: IIe, Hard Drive, PRODOS, etc

[ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford)]

In a previous article, abc@ARL.ARMY.MIL (Brinton Cooper) says:

>
>Having installed a HD with PRODOS 8 on my wife's IIe, I'm confronted
>with her need to run protected software from a floppy drive.
>Specifically, we placed the IDE controller in slot 7 so that PRODOS
>would boot from the HD.  However, we cannot make the system boot from
>either floppy in this configuration.  Further, we cannot install "Bank
>Street Writer" because BSW.OBJ uses some sort of copy protection.
>
Probably the simplest solution would be to write a simple BASIC program 
to run from your hard disk and boot slot 6.  For example,

10 PRINT CHR$(4)"PR#6"

Now, with your hard disk installed in slot 7, simply run this program and it 
will boot your floppy.  Of course, you'll need to have BASIC.system as the
first ".system" file or else use a program selector that will let you run the
program from some sort of menu.


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Eric S. Ford    ag471@yfn.ysu.edu