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Need 3.5" ProDOS Bootables for //c+
- Subject: Need 3.5" ProDOS Bootables for //c+
- From: Chris Morse <chris@invalid.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 05:43:00 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Optimum Online
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:24941
Just got an Apple //c+ from eBay, and (as expected) the software is
quite limited. The //c+ has an internal 3.5" drive, and all that I
got with the machine were some 5.25" disks along with an external
5.25" drive. I've got a big pile of new blank 800k 3.5" floppies, but
no ProDOS. If I boot a DOS 3.3 5.25" disk from the external drive, it
doesn't seem to recognize the internal 3.5" drive (doesn't even try to
access the internal drive if I try to catalog any slot/disk
combination.)
Would have been nice if the original 3.5" floppies for the machine
came with it, but that's probably too much to ask. Anyone willing to
send me a few 3.5" floppies with the basics on it? Or - better yet,
tell me that I have what I need to pull it off myself.
Unfortunately, at the moment, I have no access to any other Apple //
or even Macintosh systems. Ack! Ideally, a copy of the ProDOS system
and utilities disks on 3.5", I think, is what I would optimally need.
Once I get a null modem cable hooked up to my PC, I should be able to
figure out the rest of it.
Perhaps I can do something like this: (?)
(1) Get null-modem cable and hook //c+ up to my Windows machine
(2) Boot blank DOS 3.3 disk from external 5.25" drive, which I have..
(3) Somehow load/run ADT (Apple Disk Transfer) onto //c+
(4) With ADT, somehow copy over a 5.25" bootable ProDOS disk image
(5) With 5.25" bootable ProDOS disk, format a 3.5" ProDOS disk
(6) Now I have a 3.5" ProDOS disk!
I've never used ADT before - this is pretty new to me.. I think I
recall reading that ADT can sort of install itself given a working
serial connection to a windows machine.
Thanks for any help!
// CHRIS