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Re: Apple IIgs booting/monitor problems



Gabriel Androczky wrote:

Hi!

I just got an Apple IIgs with two floppy drives (1x3,5" and 1x5,25"), a
keyboard, a mouse and a 12" RGB monitor.

I quickly ran into two problems:

1. The 12" Apple RGB Display does only display some running blue pattern. I
suppose this monitor is not meant to be used with the IIgs. Which one then?
What's the difference?


The IIgs uses an RGB minitor model # A2M6014. The difference is that
most other monitors can't synch down to 15 khz


In the meantime, I hooked the IIgs to my TV with that RF modulator output,
but the colors are shifting and the text is only readable when colors are
dimmed on the TV set.


In your Control Panel (Apple-Control-Esc) changing your display setting
to Monochrome will likely help.


2. I downloaded a 6.0.1 OS disk image from Apple (first 2 of the 7-disk set)
and made them onto floppies (i've put some adhesive tape over the HD hole on
the floppies) with DiskCopy on my Power Mac.
When I boot the GS with that floppy in the drive, it says "UNABLE TO LOAD
PRODOS"....
What does that mean???


Most Power Macs have manual inject floppy drives which usually won't
make a bootable ProDOS disk. The auto-inject drives on most of the pre
PPC Macs worked better for this.
I believe Bill Garber has helped a few people by mailing out System disks for a small amount. Also Syndicomm sells them for a nominal fee. 

Also HD floppies formatted 800k tend to be considerably less reliable
than real 800k disks.

Wayne