smp
Veteran Member
Hello all,
So, here I am with my new-to-me Apple IIGS system. I have a ROM 3 system with one 3.5 inch floppy drive and one 5.25 inch floppy drive. (And, I could borrow two more 5.25 inch floppy drives from my packed away Apple IIC+, if I want to.)
So, I am seeing that this system emulates an Apple II system very nicely. I also have a system disk for ProDOS 5.0.4, and you may have seen my posting about a bit of difficulty with Disk 7 of ProDOS 6.0.1, AKA GS/OS 6.0.1, elsewhere. These are 16 bit OS versions for the IIGS with a graphical user interface, similar to the original Macintosh.
So, I can load either of the versions of the GS/OS, but once I have it in there, the system disk is now occupying the 3.5 inch drive, and in either case, the system disk is pretty much full (almost a whopping 800K!). In order to use a significant application, say Hypercard Reader (this is a 500-and-something-K application), I have to go through a bunch of disk swaps between the application disk and the system disk, and then, I usually end up with the system disk in the drive, and the application running, but the Hyperstack that I want to see is actually on the disk that's in my hand, and the application is not aware of the disk, because it isn't in the drive. Aaarrrggghhh! I haven't gone through this since the old days of my Mac 512KE with no external drive!
BTW, I am on the waiting list for a CFFA3000, so probably in a month or so, things will get much, much better for me.
Is anyone out there using a IIGS system with floppy drives as the primary method of storage (or do you remember back when you did)? It looks to me like a minimum system to be operating as a 16 bit system with GS/OS (and not simply emulating an Apple //e) would have had to have at least two 3.5 inch drives, and at least one 5.25 inch drive, but probably two of those, also.
Anyway, I'm having a blast with this. Please let me know what your experiences have been!
smp
So, here I am with my new-to-me Apple IIGS system. I have a ROM 3 system with one 3.5 inch floppy drive and one 5.25 inch floppy drive. (And, I could borrow two more 5.25 inch floppy drives from my packed away Apple IIC+, if I want to.)
So, I am seeing that this system emulates an Apple II system very nicely. I also have a system disk for ProDOS 5.0.4, and you may have seen my posting about a bit of difficulty with Disk 7 of ProDOS 6.0.1, AKA GS/OS 6.0.1, elsewhere. These are 16 bit OS versions for the IIGS with a graphical user interface, similar to the original Macintosh.
So, I can load either of the versions of the GS/OS, but once I have it in there, the system disk is now occupying the 3.5 inch drive, and in either case, the system disk is pretty much full (almost a whopping 800K!). In order to use a significant application, say Hypercard Reader (this is a 500-and-something-K application), I have to go through a bunch of disk swaps between the application disk and the system disk, and then, I usually end up with the system disk in the drive, and the application running, but the Hyperstack that I want to see is actually on the disk that's in my hand, and the application is not aware of the disk, because it isn't in the drive. Aaarrrggghhh! I haven't gone through this since the old days of my Mac 512KE with no external drive!
BTW, I am on the waiting list for a CFFA3000, so probably in a month or so, things will get much, much better for me.
Is anyone out there using a IIGS system with floppy drives as the primary method of storage (or do you remember back when you did)? It looks to me like a minimum system to be operating as a 16 bit system with GS/OS (and not simply emulating an Apple //e) would have had to have at least two 3.5 inch drives, and at least one 5.25 inch drive, but probably two of those, also.
Anyway, I'm having a blast with this.
Please let me know what your experiences have been!smp
