[Blindapple] switching disks

[Brandon Cross]

I had to because it would boot up from that state no matter what and cause
no end of weird issues, even when I wasn't supplying the -state 1

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Jayson Smith <jaybird at bluegrasspals.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was referring to deleting the saved state file. In the directory where
> mess.exe is located, there's a subdirectory called sta, and in there is one
> called apple2ee. In that directory is a state file with the filename of the
> single character you use, and an extension. To keep things clean, I always
> go in and delete saved states when I'm through with them.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jayson
>
>
> On 7/7/2017 5:35 PM, Jeff Weiss wrote:
>
>> Hi Jason and others,
>> Now, after listing to the audio, I see how the switching disks works and
>> what it is for.  At the end of the third sound byte, you said that you
>> would clear the memory later!
>> Is this a matter of just powering off the Apple2ee emulator, or is there
>> more to this command sequence?
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff Weiss
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Weiss
>> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2017 3:50 PM
>> To: Blind Apple Discussions
>> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] switching disks
>>
>> I have not been able to get the switching disks command to work in the
>> emulator.
>>
>> The thing that works for me with two dos 3.3 disks loaded is to:
>> 1 type catalog,d2
>> This will show you a list of disks on drive 2 and leave you there.
>> catalog,d1 of course changes back to drive 1--just like on a real Apple
>> II e
>> .
>> 2.  If you know the name of a program that you want to run on the other
>> disk, you could type
>> run filename,d2 and that program will run and you would be changed to
>> drive
>> 2.
>> You do need the comma before d1 or d2.
>> I don't know that this would be useful for the emulator, but a slot
>> designator ,s6 can also be used to change slots, so you could use
>> catalog     ,s6,d2 which isn't necessary if we are only using the slots
>> for
>> the 2 drives; however in ProDos, you could use
>> cat,s3,d2 to get to the ram disk if you have a version of Textalker
>> modified
>> by Larry Skutchan.  You could also use Cat /ram to do the same thing.
>>
>> Also, reguarding integer basic, another way to change back to applesoft
>> basic is to type the command
>> FP
>> This stands for floating point because of the kind of numbers that can be
>> worked with.  FP also clears any programs out of the AppleSoft memory
>> area,
>> returns himem and lomem to their normal values, and I believe it also
>> changes the maxfiles value back to the normal of 3 files which can be
>> opened
>> at a time.
>>
>> Hth,
>> Jeff Weiss
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Mckinnish
>> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2017 7:20 PM
>> To: Blind Apple Discussions
>> Subject: [Blindapple] switching disks
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> How do I switch disks in the emulator again? I haven't done that in a
>> while.
>>
>> Didn't it have something to do with save states, or is there another way
>> to do it now?
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bryan Mckinnish
>>
>>
>>
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