I bought Scott's LC475 recently, hoping to use it as a general 040 Mac and also home for mr ][e card. My parents bought a Franklin Ace for me when I was a wee thing and I likec it, but don't remember how to get around in ][ land anymore.
What I have done so far is formatted the 2GB drive to have a 10MB ProDOS partition, and the rest in HFS for System 7.5.5. This is a nice OS and still allows booting in 24-bit mode which the card needs. So now I have the 7.5.5 system set up, and the ProDOS partition appears on the desktop. I installed the last version of the ][e card software from Apple. The program boots me to a ][e screen, which is really cool to see! I have been able to hit command-control-escape to get to the options panel.
I do not have much software. Actually, I have two disk images which are one of the main reasons why I needed the card. They might work properly from the card, or I might write them to floppy to run on a real ][. Problem is that when I try dragging the .dsk images to the ProDOS partition I get errors. And then the space is taken up on the partition, even though it does not show the files there! Basically, I have no idea how to access software images on this thing to use or write to disk. My closest experience is the STeam and PowerST emulators for Atari ST which have a hard drive folder which I can drop images into, but this apparently does not work the same way.
Can anybody help me understand what I am doing wrong here? Also, any pointers for basic ][ navigation would be much appreciated. I know that GIMF and am looking around, but only slowly finding details here and there,
What I have done so far is formatted the 2GB drive to have a 10MB ProDOS partition, and the rest in HFS for System 7.5.5. This is a nice OS and still allows booting in 24-bit mode which the card needs. So now I have the 7.5.5 system set up, and the ProDOS partition appears on the desktop. I installed the last version of the ][e card software from Apple. The program boots me to a ][e screen, which is really cool to see! I have been able to hit command-control-escape to get to the options panel.
I do not have much software. Actually, I have two disk images which are one of the main reasons why I needed the card. They might work properly from the card, or I might write them to floppy to run on a real ][. Problem is that when I try dragging the .dsk images to the ProDOS partition I get errors. And then the space is taken up on the partition, even though it does not show the files there! Basically, I have no idea how to access software images on this thing to use or write to disk. My closest experience is the STeam and PowerST emulators for Atari ST which have a hard drive folder which I can drop images into, but this apparently does not work the same way.
Can anybody help me understand what I am doing wrong here? Also, any pointers for basic ][ navigation would be much appreciated. I know that GIMF and am looking around, but only slowly finding details here and there,