LC-475 and Apple 2e-Card

[dr.zeissler]

Hi, I own a LC475 with an Apple2e-Card.

I already set up my harddrive with a 10MB prodos-partition.

I do not own any Apple2 Software. I also do not own an ADTpro-Cable.

How can I install any software on the ProDos-Hard-Drive-Partition like GEOS or some Apple2 games?

Thx!

Greetings

Doc

 

[maceffects]

It may be easiest to simply use a 1.44mb floppy to transfer the files. You may need to purchase a USB floppy drive (cheap), however it depends on your operating system.

 

[dr.zeissler]

This does not work, because the transferred Disk-Images are "plain text" and not recognizable by diskmaker8 e.g.

 

[Elfen]

As I remember it, you can not use a 1.44M PC Formatted Disk on an Apple II because it does not have a SWIM in it; it has the older WIM chip instead. I believe Applied Engineering made a Disk I/O card and Disk to read high density PC formatted disks (on 5.25 media). But that is about it.

GEOS will not work on the Apple IIe, which is what the LC/Apple Card has. It can and will run ProDOS and read ProDOS Formatted disks. You should be able to read a ProDOS formatted 3.5 disk on the LC Drive for the Apple with no problems.

Q: You have the Floppy cable that goes with the IIe Card?

Because if you do you can use that to slap on an Apple 5.25in drive to read and write such disks. You can also have a ProDOS Partition on the hard drive if you have the space but I do not know if you can boot the IIe off it. At least you can save your programs and files there. But many games requires their own floppy disk and drive in order to run. Many programs use the older DOS 3.0/3.3 and that needs the Apple II Floppy Drive.

Mac OS (7/8) can access ProDOS Disks so you can get the files from the network and put them onto the ProDOS Partition to be used by the Apple IIe Card later.

 

[dr.zeissler]

I put the LC475 beside because I got a IIgs. I have a 5,25" and a 3,5" Drive with the IIgs. 

I think I should connect the 3,5" drive first and the 5,25" behind it.

Yet I did not manage to get anythin working on the IIgs because there is currently no way to generate IIgs floppy-disks.

 

[Macdrone]

adt pro and serial cables are a way to get apple II stuff right to the II series of any flavor.  Just do a google, there are a bunch of II software sites also to start pulling stuff from.  I need to get  cable set up and going one of these days when my disks start dying, or get the floppy emu from bigg mess o wires and download the images right to card and load on the IIgs.

 

[dr.zeissler]

ADTpro worked for me with the LC475 with Apple2-Card but it does not work for the IIgs.

I am not able to the serial-port of the IIgs working. "ctrl-i/a" with "14B" does not work for the IIgs.

 

[Macdrone]

http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/connectionsserial.html

 

[Macdrone]

different key combo and set up for the IIgs according to the art pro site there.

 

[dr.zeissler]

I got it working on my IIgs, but it's really SLOWWW!

The guy who builds the CFFA3000 has only 50 orders for production. there must be about 250 in order to get in production.

this means, I'll have to wait about 2 years to get one...or I have to pay >400USD on ebay.

That's not very cool

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

I'm not sure what we're supposed to do about that.