Re: [Q] Disk Flipping and Two Disk???

["Polymorph" <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

<heliboy2003@yahoo.com.tw> wrote in message 
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> Dear all,
>
> I have a question regarding the Apple ][ floppy disk operation. Since
> the very last time I used Apple][ with Disk ][ floppy drive was
> something like 20 years ago, so I don't quite remember how it worked.
>
> Basically the question is that assume an application program has 2
> diskette which are double sided. Do we need to put the first diskette
> in Drive1 and put the second diskette in Drive2? Or we need to not
> only flip the diskette when prompted but also we need to remove the
> first diskette from Drive1 and then put the second diskette into
> Drive1?
>
> So I guess the question is really that is Drive2 not needed for all
> the application programs or it is application program dependent?
>

AFAIK it is application *and* OS dependent. If it is a DOS3.3 application, 
unless the program has a setting to look for drive 2, it will probably 
default to running off a single drive and ask for the appropriate disk to be 
inserted as necessary. If it is a ProDOS application, I *believe* that 
ProDOS will search available drives looking for the appropriate disk if it 
does not find it in the current drive. I could be wrong here, but this seems 
to be the behaviour for many programs. Can someone please confirm/deny this?

cheers,
-p