[Blindapple] disks without speech and the emulator

[Jeff Weiss]

    Yes, you can run programs on either disk.
You could do
catalog,d2 with dos and then run any program you see.
Cat,d2 with prodos and run any program you see.
Some disks have a menu system, so if you run the menu on that disk, you can arrow down to pick a program and press enter to run it.

Jeff Weiss

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From: JM Casey 
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2017 1:12 PM
To: 'Blind Apple Discussions' 
Subject: Re: [Blindapple] disks without speech and the emulator

Thanks Jeff. But just to clarify then: you can read data on drive 2 (I definitely remember doing this of course, especially with Bex), but not run programmes? I understand that drive 1 is always the boot drive; just wondered if you could boot from the prodos talking master in 1, and then run the programmes on 2. 

 

From: BlindApple [mailto:blindapple-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Weiss
Sent: October 21, 2017 1:51 PM
To: Blind Apple Discussions
Subject: Re: [Blindapple] disks without speech and the emulator

 

With the aTalkMasterPro in drive 1, and the prodos issue of Apple Talk—17 through 20 in drive 2, start the emulator.

A program menu will come up. Choose A.T.Reader.

The Prodos A.T.Reader will ask you to enter a prefix or drive number.

Just press 2 for drive 2 and press enter.  You will be able to read all of the textfiles on that drive.

You can put aTalkGames or any other ProDos disk in drive 2 and read whatever textfiles are there.

 

Jeff Weiss

 

 

 

From: JM Casey 

Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:09 AM

To: Blind Apple Discussions 

Subject: [Blindapple] disks without speech and the emulator

 

Hey everyone.

 

I was just looking through the disks for apple talk, and wanted to investigate atalkgamespro.dsk. I noticed there’s a prodos textalker boot disk; I understand that not all disks include textalker because it takes up a good number of sectors and you only have so many to play with on a disk. What I am wondering is, do I have to boot from the textalker pro disk, and then switch disks, using the method described in the read me file with the emulator? Or is there a way I could have it read the image from –flop2 and run the programmes from that? I am trying to recall my own Apple days and I can’t say I ever remember running anything from the second disk drive; it seems like it was for data purposes only. So, am I correct in thinking the only way to access these non-talking disks is to exit the emulator and “switch” disks in drive 1?

 

Thanks again.

 

 


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