Re: Long VTech Floppy Drive Controller

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill Garber wrote:

>"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
>news:kqy3c.142812$A12.82386@edtnps84...
>: Bill Garber wrote:
>:
>: > I need to have my SCSI card in slot 5 otherwise the
>: > partitions don't get remapped to slot 2. Do they get
>: > remapped from slot 7 as well?
>:
>: It does with ProDOS 2.0.3. I have a marked preference for that
>: version. Installed a 65C02 in my II+ so I could use ProDOS
>2.0.3.
>: If you are booting from slot 5 on a IIe then it might be
>: worthwhile patching the ROM so the IIe'll scan the slots
>: starting at the bottom and going up.
>
>That would certainly solve the issue, but
>then I would have to leave out my Slinky
>Ram card that is in slot 1. I guess I need
>to go through all my disks and see what will
>run under 2.0.3 and put it on them. Yes, if
>I put that on with A2Desktop, then it will
>map partitions 3 and 4 to slot 2 while it's
>in slot 7, and if I want to boot from floppy,
>then control-reset before it's loaded or hit
>startup drive after it's loaded. Yeah, I'll
>put 2.0.3 on it and move it to 7. Now, what
>about my VTech card? I can use the Laser ROM
>in it? And how about cables? Anything on that
>yet?

I'm not a "gamer", but I've never found any ProDOS app
that wouldn't run under version 2.0.3.  In my experience,
ProDOS is much more interface compatible than the
various versions of GS/OS.  (The interface is much
less complex, so it's an easier problem.)

If you can do without the "little pictures", ProSel 8 is the
very best ProDOS program selector for a hard disk-based
system.  And it provides a host of very useful utilities as
part of the bundle.

You can design text-based menu screens that make
program selection very simple with either a mouse or
with the cursor keys, and you can get a lot more
apps on the screen readably than with "icons".

Of course, if you can't do without a wastebasket...  ;-)

-michael

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