[Blindapple] switching disks

[Brandon Cross]

thanks for the audio, that did get it working for me after that. Also, yes,
both methods leave the echo words freezing while textalker is loaded. I may
be able to read the print, we'll see, but yeah, the female voice might be
out, ah well, wasn't anything important, just a novelty.

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Jeff Weiss <jeff-weiss at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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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