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| From | Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.apple2 |
| Subject | Re: Last stupid Apple II newbie questions for 2024 ... |
| Date | 2024-12-26 12:54 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <alpine.DEB.2.21.2412261249190.9850@sd-119843.dedibox.fr> (permalink) |
| References | <lt5hkqFsfcuU1@mid.individual.net> |
On Thu, 26 Dec 2024, Sebastian wrote: > A few words beforehand: > I'm a (retro) Macintosh guy. Born in 1981. First Mac in 1991. But too > young to have experienced the Apple II days. Never got around to using > one. But it's never to late, eh? I was born in 1980, so I'm not that much older than you but I was right in the thick of it. > 3.) What's the thing with OSes? The Apple II apparently had a variety of > different OSes from what I read? Like Apple DOS, ProDOS and even some kind > of CP/M. What's generally advisable to look into? What is the most > sophisticated, how do they differ and is any still in development maybe? Most Apple ][ software used bespoke OSes. DOS 3.3 wasn't uncommon either and ProDOS was used for more serious stuff later on. A couple of us have converted software to ProDOS, because ProDOS will work with arbitrary drives, where DOS 3.3 and bespoke OSes only work with drives that resemble the original 5.25" floppy drive. (For example, ProDOS on a hard drive partition or a 1.44 MB floppy on a Macintosh LC with an emulator card, a configuration I myself use.) -uso.
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Last stupid Apple II newbie questions for 2024 ... info@cornica.org (Sebastian) - 2024-12-26 18:21 +0100
Re: Last stupid Apple II newbie questions for 2024 ... D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2024-12-26 17:43 +0000
Re: Last stupid Apple II newbie questions for 2024 ... Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2024-12-26 12:54 -0500
Re: Last stupid Apple II newbie questions for 2024 ... mmphosis <mmphosis@macgui.com> - 2024-12-26 20:35 +0000
Re: Last stupid Apple II newbie questions for 2024 ... Lifepillar <lifepillar@lifepillar.me> - 2024-12-27 11:36 +0000
Re: Last stupid Apple II newbie questions for 2024 ... Sebastian <email@domain.com> - 2024-12-27 18:18 +0100
Re: Last stupid Apple II newbie questions for 2024 ... Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2024-12-27 12:44 -0500
Re: Last stupid Apple II newbie questions for 2024 ... Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc@web.de> - 2024-12-27 20:21 +0000
Re: Last stupid Apple II newbie questions for 2024 ... phigan <phigan@bbs.penisys.online> - 2024-12-28 22:55 +0000
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