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So I just got an amazing apple //e setup (For a rock bottom price of $125!) And everything works, but I would like to take advantage of the duo disk drive. I would like to leave the boot disk in drive one, and put other stuff in drive to. But I can't figure out how to exactly "load" from drive 2. Simply googling hasn't helped much here. So I came here. Thanks in advance.
Apple //e-OTHER, Duo Disk Drive, Rev B?
Those are good references. But the short answer is just append ",D2" to the ends of DOS or ProDOS commands:
CATALOG,D2
SAVE PROG,D2
LOAD PROG,D2
Really, though, the DOSes remember your last drive; so once you address ,D2 on a command, it'll keep referencing the second drive until you append ,D1 to go back to drive 1.
This all has to do with commands you're typing from the Applesoft BASIC prompt. From within a program of any sort, there will be some method defined by that program to address the second disk (maybe). Not all programs (and even fewer games) bothered to allow you to use two drives.
Those are good references. But the short answer is just append ",D2" to the ends of DOS or ProDOS commands:
CATALOG,D2
SAVE PROG,D2
LOAD PROG,D2
Really, though, the DOSes remember your last drive; so once you address ,D2 on a command, it'll keep referencing the second drive until you append ,D1 to go back to drive 1.
This all has to do with commands you're typing from the Applesoft BASIC prompt. From within a program of any sort, there will be some method defined by that program to address the second disk (maybe). Not all programs (and even fewer games) bothered to allow you to use two drives.
It will depend on what you are running.
Generally speaking and as far as i remember as its been a while since I've touched an Apple IIe, Drive 2 is not directly accessible to the user.
Pro Dos had some disk copy utils that could access the secondary drive.
Beyond that, whatever you load from drive one is responsible for what you can do with the rest of the hardware.
Are you running some OS, like Apple DOS ? or Pro Dos?
Some more info here:
http://www.landsnail.com/a2ref3.htm
ProDOS 2.4.1 : J.B. Brooks (After Apple Computer) : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a little late, but there are some tricks you can do to boot from the external drive. I've tested this on a //c, and it works: http://apple2.wikia.com/wiki/Apple-//c-Boot_Patch. Something similar might work on a ][e
oops, sorry: wrong thread
Thanks, I was just wondering if there was some way, I do have (I think) A util that I can play around. Its running ProDos 3.3.
I'm not sure why it says solved on the first guy, I must have accidentally hit it. But this solved my problem. 😀
Apple //e how to load from Drive 2
