Re: play audio CD's on IIe with Apple Rev C card?

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@telus.spamless.net>]

Mark Percival wrote:

> Since you're pretty much restricted to ProDOS CD's I'd have to agree.
> I think they only CD currently available that has a ProDOS partition
> would be Golden Orchard that SSII sells.  I'm not aware of any 8-bit
> utilities that would allow access to other formats.

If I remember correctly HFSLink and A2FX will let you access HFS volumes

> An IntBasic Apple II would be a particular challenge since even ProDOS
> isn't supported there.  I wonder if it would be possible to have DOS
> 3.3 on a CD?

That's a widely held misconception. An integer basic Apple II can use
ProDOS and ProDOS applications that don't make use of AppleSoft. I've
used a 3.5" drive with an > II and run Copy II Plus, I think it was
version 8. I may have been using a TransWarp accelerator at the time.
Having an accelerator or 65C02 allows the use of a number of programs
that you couldn't otherwise run with the stock 6502.


	Wayne