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| How to boot Apple II Desktop/Mousedesk off of a virtual drive? |
Posted by: tanuki65 on 2015-08-08 12:27:20
I am using A2CLOUD as a hard drive for my Apple //c, and I wonder how to boot Apple II Desktop (which I have on the virtual drive) up. When I type
-DESKTOP.SYSTEM
it just loads a little, then crashes.
Edit: Also, how can you run AppleWorks?
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Posted by: david__schmidt on 2015-08-08 21:07:33
The serial drive driver occupies some memory that the deskop clobbers. So that's why that approach won't work. You'd have to find/make real floppy disks to run either of those desktop programs (or AppleWorks, for that matter) from the IIc - or get one of the SmartPort devices that have been coming out lately.
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Posted by: tanuki65 on 2015-08-09 08:07:34
Aren't you thinking of VSDRIVE.LOW?
Edit: Also, is there any way to load MouseDesk from floppy, but then have virtual drives to launch programs from (through MouseDesk)?
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Posted by: tanuki65 on 2015-08-09 09:23:09
Also, could you give me a list of software that is VSDRIVE compatible? And I thought VSDRIVE loaded in in place of the floppy driver. (Which MouseDesk doesn't overwrite.)
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Posted by: david__schmidt on 2015-08-09 14:06:28
Aren't you thinking of VSDRIVE.LOW?
Edit: Also, is there any way to load MouseDesk from floppy, but then have virtual drives to launch programs from (through MouseDesk)? If you can load MouseDesk from floppy (which I don't know, I've never used it) then the version of VSDRIVE that overwrites the floppy driver ought to work (which is what I think A2CLOUD uses).
Also, could you give me a list of software that is VSDRIVE compatible? And I thought VSDRIVE loaded in in place of the floppy driver. (Which MouseDesk doesn't overwrite.) I don't have a list... if you're overwriting the floppy driver, then any ProDOS software ought to work. You'd have to ask Ivan specific questions about how A2CLOUD behaves and what to expect; I'm honestly not an expert there. I only supply the driver. 😉
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Posted by: tanuki65 on 2015-08-09 15:22:06
I am going to try GEOS.
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