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
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
