It's been a looooong time since I used an Apple II

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Branchus

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Since receiving Kay Koba's SPIISDv2 I've had the luxury of running Total Replay and reliving some great old memories, but when it comes to the command line, I'm stumped.

I remember the standard commands like RUN, BRUN, LOAD, BLOAD, CAT, PR# and PREFIX but so much of my old knowledge has leaked out of my brain forever.

I'm hoping someone can answer a couple of (hopefully) simple questions I have to restore some of this lost knowledge.

Many moons ago I had an Apple IIe with an external hard drive, and I used to have everything I needed loaded on that drive. There were a couple of games that I could only ever get running from a floppy disk, but the majority of files and applications lived on that drive. I wrote a BASIC application that was a startup menu that allowed me to easily launch whatever application I wanted (like AppleWorks or Copy II+) but that code is long gone.

So here are my questions:

1) How do I tell ProDOS to automatically launch into a BASIC application when it boots?

2) How do I launch applications like Copy II+ or Appleworks from a hard drive? If I try and "RUN" or "BRUN" Copy II+ from the command line it just says "FILE MISMATCH ERROR". I know I used to be able to do this but for the life of me I can't remember how.

Thanks in advance.

Bruce
 

Andy

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) How do I launch applications like Copy II+ or Appleworks from a hard drive? If I try and "RUN" or "BRUN" Copy II+ from the command line it just says "FILE MISMATCH ERROR". I know I used to be able to do this but for the life of me I can't remember how.
You can use - and then the filename and it should launch the program regardless of type