[Blindapple] copying Dos to non-talking disk

[Byron Stephens]

That's strange as I just finished playing it, and it works, you run it off 
drive2.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blake Roberts" <beroberts at hughes.net>
To: "'Blind Apple Discussions'" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindapple] copying Dos to non-talking disk


> What menu program? I loaded echo2e.dsk in drive 1 and atgames.dsk in drive
> 2. I find no program called menu on disk 1. When I try to catalog disk 2, 
> I
> receive "path not found" error. I have never used Prodos before so I
> understand that the catalog command may be different under this version of
> AppleDos.
> Blake
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindapple-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
> [mailto:blindapple-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Byron Stephens
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 5:25 PM
> To: Blind Apple Discussions
> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] copying Dos to non-talking disk
>
>        I have attached the prodos textalker for all here, just run it with
> the atgames in drive 2 of the emulator, and just run the menu program.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jayson Smith" <jaybird at bluegrasspals.com>
> To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 2:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] copying Dos to non-talking disk
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> That's right, and complicating the issue, I don't think there's room on
>> the
>> atgames.dsk for the ProDOS boot files and Textalker.
>> Jayson
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Byron Stephens" <bstephens122874 at shaw.ca>
>> To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:28:59 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] copying Dos to non-talking disk
>>
>>> You'll need to get a prodos version of textalker to make the atgames 
>>> disk
>>> run correctly.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Blake Roberts" <beroberts at hughes.net>
>>> To: "'Blind Apple Discussions'" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 1:24 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] copying Dos to non-talking disk
>>>
>>>
>>> > I'm trying to access the atgames disk found in the dropbox. I receive
>> an
>>> > i/o
>>> > error when I catalog it in drive 2. Is it possible to access that 
>>> > disk?
>> If
>>> > not, I am surprised it is available.
>>> > Blake
>>> >
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: blindapple-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
>>> > [mailto:blindapple-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jayson 
>>> > Smith
>>> > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 4:03 PM
>>> > To: Blind Apple Discussions
>>> > Subject: Re: [Blindapple] copying Dos to non-talking disk
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > Do you mean the disk is in DOS 3.3 format, but isn't bootable? To find
>>> > out,
>>> > put a bootable DOS disk in drive 1, the disk in question in drive 2,
>>> > boot, get to Applesoft, and type:
>>> > catalog,d2
>>> >
>>> > If you get a list of files, the disk may not be bootable. If you get 
>>> > an
>>> > I/O
>>> > error or a blank or garbage list of files, the disk is probably using
>>> > ProDOS or its own proprietary operating system. You can sometimes make
>>> > ProDOS disks talk, but that's a totally different procedure. It's not
>>> > generally possible to make disks which use their own independent OS
>> talk,
>>> > as there's no recognized filesystem to install Textalker, and no way 
>>> > to
>>> > make the bootup process, whatever it is, recognize that it needs to
>>> > load
>>> > it.
>>> > Jayson
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ----- Original Message -----
>>> > From: "Blake Roberts" <beroberts at hughes.net>
>>> > To: "'Blind Apple Discussions'" <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
>>> > Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:04:56 -0400
>>> > Subject: [Blindapple] copying Dos to non-talking disk
>>> >
>>> >> Having been on this list for a while, I understand that hello and
>>> > Textalker
>>> >> must be copied to non-talking disks. However, for disks that lack 
>>> >> Dos,
>>> >> how
>>> >> do I copy Dos operating system to the disk in drive 2?
>>> >>
>>> >> Blake
>>> >>
>>> >>
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