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ProDOS: Why This Changed Everything for Apple II Users Join me in this ultimate guide to the Apple II's ProDOS. Why did it take Apple so long to replace AppleDOS, a DOS only suited to the simpler DiskII system. What did ProDOS finally bring to the legendary Apple II and why did it become...

Apple II Storage: The ULTIMATE Timeline Deep-Dive (From Disk II to SuperDrive!) For two decades, the Apple II family was a home micro pioneer! This deep dive celebrates its legendary storage history: From the revolutionary Disk II system and the birth of micro-hard disks, through the essential...

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That sounds pretty cool. Would you happen to have an idea of which issues of this Magazine carry these listings? I assume these are on Archive.org?

Hey, i'm having a little trouble using wildcards in ProDOS. So far I have only managed to use them successfully inside the Utils program to copy some files. For example, this works COPY SOURCE > /FLOPPY/RAM= TARGET > /A/UTIL/= What I find unusual about this, compared to say DOS or LINUX shell...

Yes, I get you, its something I struggled with. I guess Apple did this, as they felt that the extra RAM taken by putting these commands in RAM would make the DOS impractical for users with less RAM. A compromises for sure and it feels odd with ProDOS to have to load a util to COPY a file, not so...

Thanks for that, it IS all useful info. I think I WILL feature this as a soliution for an Apple IIe, WITH the proviso of course that it works a LOT better with more RAM and an accelerated machine (IIc+) or IIe accelerator. The new enhancements for a 1Mhz machine DO sound very encouraging. I have...

Thanks for that tid-bit, I'm not sure I read that in the manual yet. I guess I should give it another read through before recording that section of my video. Also, I need to gen up a bit of how the .SYSTEM files work to load in apps and about hard disks in general, maybe there is not much to...

I have an Enhanced IIe, so it can use hard disks, I have tested this with both my Booti, which can load multiple HD images, 32mb each, and also using an Apple Fast SCSI card. So loading in A2Desktop would not be TOO slow, but yeah, I hear you. Upgrading the machine to that much RAM is outside...

I already own a Booti, and I plan for it to be used on my IIe. The Fast SCSI is planned to be used with my IIgs. This post, more than anything is about whats the best SOFTWARE I can install, to make using several drives easier/faster to operate.

Hey, I have two HD options for my Apple IIe, one is the Fast Apple SCSI card, which I could use with a BlueSCSI, and another option is a Booti. The SCSI card is destined for my IIgs, but either way, Im inexperienced with an Apple II and I am pondering what the best HD environment/setup is for a...

Thanks, no, thats the trick. Did not realise that everything under the cursor onwards would be discarded.

Hey, I'm prepping to make a video on Apple II ProDOS and as a first step I am trying to become familiar with the specifics of the DOS. I have noticed that pathnames are a thing and getting to a file can often require a fully qualified path, going from the volume-name onwards. Fair enough...

Yeah... the chances it would land EXACTLY on the little ZIF socket handle were low. But it managed to do it, and snap, off came the end of the socket. As its a REAL stress point, gluing it back on does not work. I DO have these other sockets which do not fit, and I have thought about filing the...

Unleashing the Legend: The Apple IIe and the Disk II! In this episode, we're diving into a true titan of early micro-computing: the legendary Disk II floppy disk system for the Apple II. Designed by the brilliant Steve Wozniak, the Disk II wasn't just another peripheral—it was a seismic shift in...