Apple Elite, 13-0010-001 User Manual
RanaSystems
EliteSeries
User Manual
ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL PREFACE
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Copyright 1982 by RANA Systems
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Kieth S. Burgoyne, Editor
Elite One, Elite Two, Elite Three, Elite
Controller, and Elite Enhancements are
all trademarks of Rana Systems.
Apple is a registered trademark of Apple
Computer Inc.
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Research.
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sale. Rana Systems makes no warranties
regarding the satisfactory performance, mer—
chantability, or fitness for any particular
purpose, of the product or its associated software. Defects covered by this warranty shall be
corrected either by repair or, at Rana Systems
discretion, by replacement. In the event of
replacement, the replacement unit will he warranted for the remainder of the original ninety
(90) day period or thirty (30) .days, whichever
is longer.
There are no warranties, express or implied,
including hut not limited to those of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose,
which, extend beyond the description and duration
set forth herein. Rana Systems’ sole obligation
under this warranty is limited to the repair or
replacement .of a defective product and Rana
Systems shall not, in any event,, he liable for
any incidental or consequential damages of any
kind resulting from use or possession of this
product.
This warranty gives you specific legal rights,
and you may also have other rights which vary from
state to. state.
HARDWARE WARRANTY
Rana Systems warrants to the original user of
an Elite Series Product, including any
associated software, that the product shall he
free of defects resulting from faulty
manufacture .of the product or its components for
a period .of ninety (90) days from the date of
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ADDITIONAL WARRANTY INFORMATION
Rana Systems makes no warranties, either express
or implied, with respect to this manual or with
respect to the software described in this
manual, its quality, performance, merchant-
ability, or fitness for any particular purpose.
Rana Systems software is supplied “as is”. The
entire risk as to its quality and performance is
with the buyer. Should the programs or utili-
ties prove defective following receipt, the
buyer (and not Rana Systems, its distributor, or
its retailer) assumes the entire cost of all
necessary servicing, repair, or correction and
any incidental or consequential damages. In no
event will Rana Systems be liable for direct,
indirect, incidental, or consequential damages
resulting from any defect in the software, even
if Rana Systems has been advised of the possi bility of such damages. Rana Systems reserves
the right to make improvements in the products
described in this manual at any time and without
notice. Some states do not allow the exclusion
or limitation of implied warranties or liability
for incidental or consequential damages, so the
above limitation or exclusion may not apply to
you.
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SERVICE INFORMATION
If your Elite Series product requires repair,
please return it to the dealer from whom it was
purchased. If it is not possible to return the
product to your dealer, you may contact Rana
Systems directly for factory or regional service
information. You are responsible for all
shipping or postage charges incurred upon
shipment to Rana Systems or any designated Rana
Systems service center. Rana Systems or our
designated service center. will prepay all
shipping charges incurred upon return shipment
to you, provided the shipment is via a method
acceptable to the factory and/or service center.
Return shipping charges on out off warranty units
may be included in the repair charges, at the
discretion off Rana Systems or our service centers.
All returns to Rana Systems or our service
centers must be accompanied by a Material Return
Authorization number (MRA), written prominently
on the outside of the shipping container. MRA
numbers must be obtained directly from Rana
Systems or the service center to which the
product will be shipped. One service center
cannot necessarily supply a MRA number for
another service center.
If the repair is required during the warranty
period, proof off purchase must be enclosed with
the product. During warranty, we will replace
or repair your Elite Series product without any
parts or labor charges to you. If the Elite
Series product requires service after the
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warranty period expires, it will be repaired for
a flat fee. Inquiries regarding repair charges
on products being returned to Rana Systems or
one of our service centers for service should be
made directly to Rana Systems.
Neither Rana Systems nor our service, centers
assume responsibility for any loss or damage
incurred during transit to or from the factory
or service center, claims, arising from such
loss or damage should be filed immediately with
the shipping company. Carriers generally do not
assume responsibility for any damage due to
improper packaging, so all return shipments to
Rana Systems or our service centers should be
properly packaged. Return shipments to you will
be packaged with the same considerations which
new units receive.
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6. SPECIFICATIONS........................... 1
6.1. Introduction........................ 1
6.2. Mechanical Dimensions............... 9
6.3. Controller to Drive Interface...... 12
6.4. Signal Interface................... 13
6.4.1. Control Signals............. 14
6.4.2. Data Signals................ 17
6.5. Power Interface.................... 18
7. OPERATIONAL THEORY OF ELITE PRODUCTS..... 1
7.1. Elite Drives........................ 1
7.1.1. General Operation............ 1
7.1.2. Read/Write/Control Logic..... 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INSTALLATION.......................... 1
1.1. Unpacking........................... 1
1.2. Connecting Drive Cables............. 1
1.3. Installing Your Controller Card..... 2
2. OPERATING.............................. 1
2.1. Elite Drives Write—Protect Switch... 1
2.2. Recommended Diskettes............... 2
3. ENHANCING APPLE‘S APPLLE II DOS 3.3...... 1
4. ENHANCING MICROSOFT APPLE ][ CP/M 2.2.... 1
4.1. Using Multiple Drives............... 5
4.2. Using a Single Drive............... 39
5. SECTION 5.............................. 1
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9.2. CLONE Utility...................... 13
9.3. PROFILE Utility.................... 24
9.4. ENHANCE Utility.................... 31
9.5. FID ENHANCE Utility................ 32
10.ENHANCED CP/M UTILITIES............. 1
10.1. Notation.......................... 3
10.2. FORMAT Utility.................... 5
10.3. COPY Utility...................... 11
10.4. PROFILE Utility................... 24
7.1.3. Drive Mechanism................ 3
7.1.4. Head Positioning Mechanisms.... 4
7.1.5. Read/Write Head................ 5
7.2. Elite Controller...................... 7
7.2.1. Introduction................... 7
7.2.2. Booting........................ 8
7.2.3. Hardware....................... 9
7.2.4. EPROM Logic.................... 9
7.2.5. State Machine.................. 11
7.2.6. Addressahle Latch.............. 12
7.2.7. Alternate Pair Select Logic ... 12
7.2.8.Data Buffer/Internal Data Ru ... 12
7.2.9.Controller Command Structure ... 13
7.2.10. Power-On Reset................ 17
7.2.11. Power Supply Deco
8. USER LEVEL MAINTAINENCE............. 1
8.1. Handling........................... 3
8.2. Diskette Care and Handling......... 3
8.3. Back-up Diskettes.................. 6
8.4. Write Protect...................... 6
9. ENHANCED DOS UTILITIES.............. 1
9.1. FORMAT Utility..................... 3
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11. SECTION ll........................... 1
A. DISKETTE DATA RECORDING............ 3
A.1. Introduction...................... 3
A.2. Tracks and Sectors................ 3
A.3. Track Formatting.................. 9
A.4. Fields............................ 17
A.5. Gaps.............................. 19
A.5.1. Gap 1...................... 20
A.5.2. Gap 2...................... 20
A.5.3. Gap 3...................... 23
A.6. Data Field. Encoding.............. 29
A.7. Sector Interleaving............... 41
B. DOS TECHNICAL NOTES.................. 1
B.1. Command Interpreter Alterations... 2
B.2. File Manager Alterations.......... 3
B.3. RWTS Alterations.................. 3
C. CP/M TECHNICAL NOTES.................. 1
C.1. Z80 BIOS Call Extensions......... 2
C.2. Drive Mapping Table............... 3
C.3. Seek Configuration Table.......... 5
C.4. 6502. RWTS Alterations............ 6
D. APPENDIX D............................. 1
10.5. SGLDRIVE Utility................ 34
10.6. ENHANCE Utility.................
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Elite Three Characteristics........... 6
6-6: Elite Three Characteristics (cont.)... 7
6-7: Elite Controller Characteristics...... 8
6-8: Physical Dimensions off Elite Drives.. 10
6-9: Elite Controller Physical Dimensions.. 11
6-10: Controller to Drive Interface Signals. 12
8-1: Write Protecting Diskettes............ 8
A-1: FM Recording Pattern.................. 11
A-2: FM Bit Cell........................... 12
A-3: FM Byte Recording..................... 13
A-4: Reading Data.......................... 14
A-5: Writing Data.......................... 16
A-6: Track Formatting...................... 18
A-7: Self-Sync Byte........................ 19
A-8: Read Syncronizing..................... 22
A-9: Unsyncronized Write................... 24
A-10: Data Field Shifting.................. 25
A-11: Address Field........................ 26
A-12: Data Field........................... 28
A-13: 4—plus—4 Encoding.................... 31
A-14: 4—plus-4 Decoding.................... 32
A-15: 5-plus-3 Encoding.................... 34
LIST OF FIGURES
1—1: Elite Controller Cable Connections.... 4
1—2: Disk-II Controller Cable Connections.. 5
6-1: Elite One Characteristics............. 2
6-2: Elite One Characteristics (cont.)..... 3
6-3: Elite Two Characteristics............. 4
6-4: Elite Two Characteristics (cont.)..... 5
6-5:
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A-19: 6—plus—2 Encoding.................... 39
A-20: 6—plus—2 Conversion Table............ 40
A-21: Standard System Interleaves.......... 43
A-16: 5-plus-3 Conversion Table............ 35
A-17: Data encoding........................ 37
A-18: Data Decoding........................
ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL INTRODUCTION
slots. The Elite Controller’s ability to
handle four drives from just one slot provides a
perfect solution. And in addition, if you have
a library of diskettes which go back to the
ancient 13—sector WS days, the Elite Controller
allows you to autoboot these diskettes without
any awkward pre-boot diskettes or controller
card jumpers.
If you are an Elite Series drive user, the high
capacity of your new drive will immediately help
you to obtain the maximum efficiency from your
existing Apple II hardware and software.
Holding more information is even more valuable
when you can get to it faster, so your new drive
has engineered into it a head positioning mechanism that positions up to three times faster
across the diskette with greater accuracy than
Apple’s.
We at RANA know that modern business and profes—
sional needs have outstripped many of the early
Apple designs but our cost effective improvements make the sophisticated Elite Series
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0.0 INTRODUCTION
Congratulations! Now that you have bought one of
the totally new elite Series products, you have
done more for your Apple than Apple could do.
If you are an Elite Controller card user, you’ll
find it is designed specifically to solve one of
the major problems sophisticated Apple II users
have these days: too many cards, not enough
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Products less expensive to run in the
comparisions which count: price per kilobyte of
drive storage and expandability per controller
card purchased.
We are proud off the Elite Series, and we know
you will be too.
Ta achieve the best results and the most enjoyment from your new Elite Product, we suggest you
read this manual carefully.
We have tried to avoid including too many technicalities hut,. if you feel we have gone beyond
what you require, please hear with us. Like we
said, we are proud of our products too!
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Elite Series or Disk II disk drive(s). The
other end of these cables must be connected to
your disk controller card. For you first drive,
connect the drive to the upper set of pins. Be
sure to orient pin one on the connector with pin
one on the controller- card, Pin one on the
connector is marked with a small arrow, Pin one
on the controller card is numbered.
If this connection is incorrectly made, considerable damage may be done to the electronics of
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1. INSTALLATION
1.1. Unpacking
During unpacking, care should be taken to ensure
that all tools are nonmaqnetic and do not inflict damage to the unit. Carefully unwrap the
package and save the material which will be
useful in the future for protection during storage or travel.
Before attempting to use an Elite disk drive,
check for a protective shipping diskette inside
the drive. Elite One drives do not require a
protective diskettes, so were may or may not be
one in the drive.
NOTE: Before connecting or disconnecting ANY
equipment TURN OFF ALL COMPUTER AND PERIPHERAL
POWER.
1.2. Connecting Drive Cables
A flat ribbon cable is already connected to your
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from the top down. Once again, be sure to
orient pin one correctly.
1.3. Installing Your Controller Card
To install your controller card into the Apple,
simply plug the card into any slot (except zero)
in the back of the Apple II motherboard as
follows:
1. With the power switch OFF, remove the top
cover from the Apple II computer by lifting from
the rear edge.
2. Choose a slot which would be correct for your
application. Most packages which run under
Apple DOS (or are protected from copying) do not
care which slot you use for your drives; however
the more advanced operating systems (like CP/M
and Apple Pascal) require that your first
controller card be located in slot six. This has
made slot six the “standard” slot for a disk
controller card, so you should consider placing
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both the drive and the controller. Be sure to
make the connection BEFORE installing the
controller card into the Apple motherboard.
If you are installing a second disk drive, you
should connect: the ribbon cable from the second
drive onto the next set. of pins down on the
controller card marked “DRIVE 2”, taking the
same precautions as above.
If you are connecting and third (and fourth)
drive to an Elite Controller, they would be
connected to the third and fourth set of pins
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you controller in that slot.
3. Insert the gold covered “fingers” into the
slot and GENTLY rock the controller card into a
firmly seated position.
4. Adjust your ribbon cables so they pass easily
out through the back of the computer through the
vertical openings in the rear of the case.
5. If you wish to install a second controller
card, the same procedure outlined above would be
used; except the “standard” slot number for
second controllers is slot five. A third
controller would normally go in slot four.
6. Replace the lid, remembering to slide the
front edge into the case first, then press down
on the two rear corners until they pop into
place.
7. Your Elite product is now installed and the
Apple II can be turned on. Your disk drive(s)
can be placed in a convenient location, usually
along side or on top of the computer.
See figures 1. and 1.2 for correct cable connections to the Elite and Disk If controller cards.
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drive 1 connector
drive 2 connector
drive 3 connector
drive 4 connector
controller card
Fig. 1-1: Elite Cont roller Cable Connections
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drive 1 connector
drive 2 connector
controller card
ribbon cable
to disk drive
Fig. 1-2: Disk Il Cont roller Cable Connections
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drive is a touch-switch. By momentarily
pressing the stripes labeled PROTECT, the write—
protect status of the drive can be toggled
on/off. The drive’s write protect status is
reflected by a small light next to the PROTECT
switch.
The switch does not affect the write-protect
status of a diskette which has been protected by
covering the diskette’s notch. Diskettes which
are protected in this way are always considered
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2. OPERATING
If the only Elite product you currently have is
the Elite Controller, then this section probably
won’t be off must interest to you. Since the
Elite Controller has no switches (13/16 sector
booting is automatic) and we haven’t, supplied
you with a slot in the card in which you could
insert a diskette, there is nothing’ which you
could “operate”.
If you are a programmer who is interested in how
to manipulate the controller card software—wise,
such secrets are revealed later in this manual.
2.1. Elite Drives’ Write-Protect Switch
Operating the Elite drives is identical to operating a Disk—II drive, except that the Elite
drives have an extra write-protect switch which
may require a little explaining.
Mounted on the upper front panel of an Elite
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protected regardless of the PROTECT switch.
Located next to the PROTECT switch is a small
LED which, when on, indicates that the diskette
is currently write-protected. This LED reflects
write-protecting due to the switch or a tab on
the diskette. An Elite drive will only permit
writing on a diskette when this LED is off.
Due to the fact that the Elite Series drives
were designed to operate identically to the Disk
II drives in every way, the PROTECT LED will
flicker whenever the Elite drive is seeking its
read/write head from track to track and the
drive is not in a write—protected state. This
flickering is completely normal, and accurately
reflects the write-protect status on both the
Elite One and Disk II during head movement.
2.2. Recommended Diskettes
There are any number of diskette manufacturers
on the market, each offering the “perfectly
engineered” diskette. We do not intend to dispute any individual claim to this title.
However, in the jungle of literature there are
certain features which should be sought out.
With the vast amount of technical data involved,
it is not easy to locate the vital information.
There are a number of industry-standard tests
which manufacturers will refer to with pride
(assuming their product passes the tests) and
these are useful pointers.
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The best diskettes are those which give the most
trouble—free recording, storage, and retrieval of
information for the longest period of time. Look
for those incorporating features which lead to
minimum head abrasion and which shield the
diskette from environmental hazards (like dust
particles) in a strong, durable jacket.
The following table illustrates a number of
diskette manufacturers which Rana Systems has
found produce consistently high quality media.
For advice on diskette care and handling turn to
the section later in this manual headed Mainte—
nance.
The following tables of diskettes include both
soft and hard sectored diskettes. If you are
familiar with diskettes required by non-Apple
systems, this may puzzle you. Don’t worry, the
tables are correct. Apple uses a kind of “no
sector” format in which the index hole(s) punched
in the diskette (which is the difference between
soft and hard sectored diskettes) is completely
ignored.
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Recommended Diskettes for the Elite One
Hard Sec. Hard Sec.
Soft Sec. 16 Sec. 10 Sec.
Dbl. Dens. Dbl. Dens. Dbl. Dens.
Sgl. Sided Sgl. Sided Sgl. Sided
Dysan
Part Nbr. 104/1D 107/1D 105/1D
Ord. Nbr. 801787 801014 807188
Maxell
Part Nbr. MD1-M MH1—10M MD1—16M
Maxell does not use independent order numbers.
Verbatim
Part Nbr. MD525-0l MD525-10 MD525-16
Ord. Nbr. 18158 18167 18176
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Recommended Diskettes for the Elite Two
Hard Sec. Hard Sec.
Soft Sec. 16 Sec. 10 Sec.
Dbl. Dens. Dbl. Dens. Dbl. Dens.
Sgl. Sided Sgl. Sided Sgl. Sided
Dysan
Part Nbr. 104/1D 107/1D 105/1D
Ord. Nbr. 802060 802062 802061
Maxell
Part Nbr. MD1-DM MH1—10DM MD1—16DM
Maxell does not use independent order numbers.
Verbatim
Part Nbr. MD550-0l MD550-10 MD550-16
Ord. Nbr. 18188 18197 18106
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Diskettes for the Elite Three
Hard Sec. Hard Sec.
Soft Sec. 16 Sec. 10 Sec.
Dbl. Dens. Dbl. Dens. Dbl. Dens.
Sgl. Sided Sgl. Sided Sgl. Sided
Dysan
Part Nbr. 204/1D 207/1D 205/1D
Ord. Nbr. 802067 800455 802066
Maxell
Part Nbr. MD2-DM ---- --Maxell does not use independent order numbers.
Verbatim
Part Nbr. MD557-0l MD557-10 MD557-16
Ord. Nbr. 18239 18248 18257
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL DOS ENHANCEMENTS
3. ENHANCING APPLE‘S APPLE II DOS 3.3
Rana Systems’ Enhancements for Apple’s Apple II
DOS 3.3 allow automatic accessing of 4 drives
from the Rana Elite Controller Card and the
additional capacity of the Elite Disk Drives.
The Controller Card is capable of addressing any
combination of Apple Disk II and Rana Elite
Series Drives. The PROFILE program sets up DOS
(Disk Operating System) to recognize which
drives are Rana Elite Drives and which are Apple
Disk LI drives. The seek rate can also be
increased by the PROFILE program to take advantage of the increased speed of Rana drives.
The enhancements made by the ENHANCE utility
only apply to a master DOS diskette. Non-master
diskettes (slave diskettes) are what are created
when the DOS “INIT” command is used to initialize a new diskette. The copy of DOS which is
placed on such a diskette is not ENHANCE-able.
Even though a diskette may say it is a master”
when it is booted, it may not actually be one.
The program which says the diskette is a master
is completely independent of the DOS itself, and
can be copied br saved (by an “INIT’ command,
for instance) onto a slave DOS diskette.
Those DOS 3.3 diskettes supplied directly from
Apple are all master DOS diskettes. In addition, any diskette which is a copy of an Apple
DOS 3.3 distribution diskette, made using the
Apple COPY or COPYA utility will also be a
system master diskette. These instructions will
assume you are using your original DOS 3.3 distribution diskette from Apple; but if you’ve
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made a backup copy of it, the backup copy can
also be used.
The Rana DOS Enhancements Diskette does not
contain a copy of DOS and will not boot DOS into
the computer. However, certain areas of the
diskette are initialized ina DOS format, allowing those DOS programs on the Enhancer diskette
to be run once the system is booted from a DOS
master. The Rana Elite Enhancements Disk will
be used to create a new enhanced DOS master
diskette. The system tracks from this diskette
can then be used to create any number of additional DOS system diskettes that utilize the
desired Rana features, but don't have all the
DOS utilities and demonstration programs occupying the space the you can put to better use.
The following steps will guide you in creating
your enhanced DOS master and demonstrate some of
the functions of the Rana enhancement utilities.
The additional features of these utilities and a
detailed discussion of their operation is contained in a later section of this manual. Since
the time required to perform the following enhancement process does not alter much between
using multi—drives or just one drive, only a
single drive approach to enhancing has been
described.
These instructions detail a very specific approach to creating an enhanced DOS for any valid
combination of Elite drives, Elite Controllers,
Disk II drives, and Disk Ii controllers which
any user can possibly dream up. This places
upon these instructions an almost impossible
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accuracy of these instructions. Therefore,
there is no reason for you not having complete
success following these instructions. That is,
if’ you follow the instructions completely, step
by step. You are encouraged to read these instructions completely, all the way through,
before starting the procedure. That way you
will have a general understanding of what all is
involved before “diving in”.
The first thing to do is to “digup” your DOS 3.3
master diskette which has Apple’s MASTER
CREATE utility on it. (If you’re a CP/M or
Pascal user, you’ll find your DOS diskettes
buried in the bottom left hand corner of the
closet, on top of the DOS 3.2.1 diskettes.)
These instructions are going to assume that you
have your (first) controller card in slot six,
and your (first) drive attached as drive one
(you won’t get very far having your only drive
connected as drive’ two). If your drive is not
connected in this manner, and you are not an old
hand at using Apple DOS, then you should probably rearrange your system into this configuration for the duration of the enhancing procedure.
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task, considering the vivid imagination of many
users.
These instructions have been written in a stepby—step manner, with some explanation of what is
being done at each step. All of these instruc—
tions have been tested at Rana to confirm that
they are correct. In addition, several “early
release” and later users also confirmed the
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Slot six is the normal location for your first
controller, so unless you have something which
conflicts, it is suggested. that you leave your
system in a “slot six” configuration. (The DOS
enhancements and associated utilities themselves
won’t care, hut it will make things easier when
following these instructions.) Drive one off of
slot six will be referred to as your system, or
hoot drive.
Remove all diskettes from your drives, and then
turn on your system. If your Apple is equipped
with the autostart feature (most are), your
system drive (slot six, drive one) should rattle
a little and then sit there quietly spinning.
If you do not have the autostart feature, then
your Apple will simply display an asterisk. (“*”)
and wait for you to type something. That “something” should he:
6<CTRL-P><RETURN>
Whenever these instructions need to refer to
keys (to be typed) which are labelled with more
than just a single character (such as: A, B, C,
&, $, etc.), the key label will be enclosed in
angle brackets. For example, <RETURN> indicates
that the “RETURN” key should be pressed. Some
special characters require that one, key he held
down while another is pressed. For example,
<CTRL-P> means to hold down the <CTRL> key while
pressing the ‘P’ key. This is just like holding
down the <SHIFT> key in order to type “$“.
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After the “6<CTRL—P><RETURN>” sequence is typed
on a non-autostart Apple (the <CTRL—P> part
won’t show on the screen), your system drive
should rattle for a moment and then Sit there
quietly spinning.
In both cases, the drive will end up waiting for
you to insert a diskette; so indulge it by
inserting your DOS master diskette (not the
Enhancer diskette). Once the door is closed,
the system will “boot” (if the diskette is okay)
and eventually display a “]” or “>“ prompt. The
first indicates you are in Applesoft BASIC, and
the second indicates you are in Integer BASIC.
Both are okay for these instructions. When
booting an original DOS diskette from Apple,
alot of other stuff will probably happen before
you get the BASIC prompt. This just means that
the “hello” program has executed (harmless). If
you never get the BASIC prompt (“]” or “>“), it
may be wise to try another diskette.
Once you get the BASIC prompt, type:
CATALOG<RETURN>
and DOS will list all the files on your DOS
diskette.
Look through the list and locate the file
“MASTER CREATE”. If CATALOG stops before another BASIC prompt appears, that means there are
more files than will fit on the screen, press:
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