Re: Long VTech Floppy Drive Controller

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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: 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.)

Games??? What are they??? Oh yeah, I remember now.
Those little time wasters that mesmerize the mind
and leave you with sore wrists and blurry eyes.
Nope, never heard of them.  8o)

: 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.

ProSel 8 is my next stop. A2Desktop leaves much to
be desired. Not doing it for me. Now, where did I
put those disks I made. I know I still have the
images, but where. Oh, I know. Ok, here we go.
Yes, utilities, I love those.

: 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".

Text menus sound great. I'll call on you if I need
help, Mike. Thanks for reminding me of ProSel 8.

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

Hmmmm, I can live without that. I don't use the
ones on Windoze or GS/OS.  8o) In fact, I use the
hot-key combos on those more than I click, I think.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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