Another "help me" thread

[Waywick]

You know that 800k floppy drive with an Apple II?

How do I even use it?

My Apple IIGS boots/reads disks off the 5.25 drive.

How do I read floppies in the 800k?

 

[macEfan]

Is your startup disk which loads the GS OS on the 5.25" floppy?

 

[Waywick]

Is your startup disk which loads the GS OS on the 5.25" floppy?

Uhhh, GS/OS?

I use Apple DOS 3.3....

 

[David Schmidt]

Uhhh, GS/OS?

I use Apple DOS 3.3....

You can't use a 800k diskette with DOS 3.3. You need to move up to at least ProDOS - it's the first OS that really understands how to use it.

 

[Waywick]

You can't use a 800k diskette with DOS 3.3. You need to move up to at least ProDOS - it's the first OS that really understands how to use it.

Any idea on how I'd acquire ProDOS?

 

[David Schmidt]

Any idea on how I'd acquire ProDOS?

Here's one way to get it bootstrapped if you have a serial cable:
http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/bootstrap.html

 

[Waywick]

Here's one way to get it bootstrapped if you have a serial cable:
http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/bootstrap.html

That looks confusing.

Thanks for your help.

 

[David Schmidt]

That looks confusing.

Sorry to hear that. I tried to make it as straightforward as possible, but it's not a simple process. If you'd like to buy some disks that are already made, Eric Shepard sells them here:
http://store.syndicomm.com/index.ph..._id=13&zenid=63b00ca6672404f94f9c5c320ce3039c