Re: Getting software for my IIGS

[Yves McDonald <""yves.mcdonald\"@NO SPAM sympatico.ca>]

Try finding someone giving his Apple ][+ away.  Along with the system, 
chances are that you will get plenty of 5.25", DOS 3.3 disks containing 
pirated games and ][+ utilities (well, it's a start).

Cheers,

Yves

Trevor Key wrote:

> I have recently gotten an Apple IIGS system from various parts together. 
> I now have a ROM 01 system unit, a monitor, a 5.25" floppy drive, 2 3.5" 
> floppy drives, a keyboard, a mouse, and a new battery.  I just have one 
> major problem... I have no software.  I need to know how to get it from 
> the internet onto a disk it can use.  Can I use a cable to transfer 
> stuff without needing any software.  I have no 800k floppy disks.  I 
> have several other computers: a Micron Millennia Max XP2 with an AMD 
> Athlon XP 1800+ processor, an IBM 66-MHz 486 system, and a Kaypro II 
> with DSDD 5.25" drives.  Can I do anything with any of those?  I can 
> probably get my uncle to put stuff on disks since he has a macintosh 
> Performa 5300CD and access to many older models that his school has in 
> storage, though.  I just need to know what to instruct him to do after 
> downloading the files.  Also, is there some way I can get a copy of 
> system 5, or 4 (since my system only has a 1 MB memory card, and someone 
> earlier mentioned that system 6 needs at least 1.5 MB including the 256K 
> on the motherboard)?
>
> Two things that don't really seem to affect me, but kind of disturb 
> me...  First, the clock doesn't seem to advance any after setting it in 
> the control panel.  It did advance some, but only after unplugging it 
> and opening the case so that the battery (I took the lazy way of 
> installing the new battery, I just twisted the wires around the ones of 
> the old battery.  It works for now.) might have lost contact a few brief 
> times while I was cleaning it.  It kept all of my other settings intact. 
> Any suggestions on why this is happening, is this anything close to 
> normal?  Second, after discovering the key-sequence for the self-test 
> (CTRL-Option-Apple-Reset, let go of reset after a second or two) it went 
> through some graphics tests, then it displayed different border colors 
> with different numbers at the bottom of the screen.  06000000 with a 
> dark-grey border, to start with.  It gets to 0B000000 with a white 
> border, then after a couple of seconds, it gives a high-pitched beep, 
> displays 0B050000 and shows "System Bad" on the screen.  What does this 
> mean?  Should I be concerned?
>
> Anyway, there's only so much fun one can have typing things in Apple 
> BASIC, especially with no known way of saving it to disk.  I might be 
> able to get some Apple IIe floppy disks tomorrow, including whatever 
> version of ProDOS they used, but there isn't much hope there.
>
>                                        --Trevor Key