RanaSystems
EliteSeries
User Manual
ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL PREFACE
This manual is copyrighted. All rights are
reserved. This document may not, in whole or in
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machine readable form without prior consent, in
writing, from Rana Systems.
Copyright 1982 by RANA Systems
26620 South Leapwood
Carson, California 90746
(213)538—2353
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.
CP/M is a registered trademark of Digital
Research.
Rana Systems Part Number 13-0010—001
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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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tional diskettes for later. If you plan on
using diskettes which already contain some in—
formation, remember that all that existing in—
formation will be completely lost. (Don’t use
those diskettes containing all your accounting
records, please))
Once you’ve got one of the two/four diskettes in
hand, remove the WS diskette from the system
drive (using the other hand) and insert the new
diskette. Unless your second drive is the same
type as your system drive and you know for sure
what you are doing, then don’t try to use your
second drive right now. Just to he safe remove
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to see more of the list. If MASTER CREATE is
not on the diskette, you are not using an original Apple DOS 3.3 distribution diskette (or an
exact copy af one). You will need to start over
again using another diskette which does have
MASTER CREATE on it.
Once you’ve found MASTER CREATE, skip through
the rest off the catalog listing (if there is
more), by pressing:
<RETURN>
until the BASIC prompt shows up again.
Now, you will need two diskettes (one now, one
later). If you are using an Elite Two or Elite
Three drive as your system drive, you should
consult the tables of recommended diskettes
provided elsewhere in this manual. If you are
planning an making an Elite Three your system
(boot) drive, then you will also need two addi-
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second diskette. Insert another one of your
four new diskettes into the system drive and
type (Elite Three only):
INIT HELW<RETURN>
After you get back the BASIC prompt, type (Elite
Three only):
DELETE HELLO<RETURN>
Once the BASIC prompt is redisplayed, remove the
new diskette from the drive and reinsert the DOS
diskette. Type (all drive types):
BRUN MASTER CREATE<RETURN>
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any other diskettes from any other drives. With
the new diskette in the system drive, type:
INIT HELLO<RETURN>
and DOS will INITialize the diskette. The drive
will rattle and spin for less than a minute, and
then the BASIC prompt should reappear. The last
thing INIT did was save a copy of whatever
program was in memory during the INIT out onto
the diskette. You should get rid of this program by typing:
DELETE HELLO<RETURN>
If you are using an Elite Three as your system
drive, you will need to repeat this process on a
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Once DOS has loaded MASTER CREATE off the diskette, MASTER CREATE will display:
DOS 3.3 MASTER-CREATE UTILITY
COPYRIGHT 1980 BY APPLE COMPUTER INC.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
(NOW LOADING DOS IMAGE)
After MASTER CREATE has loaded a copy of the
master DOS into memory from the diskette, it will
ask for the “hello” file name:
PLEASE INPUT THE GREETING PROGRAM‘S
FILE NAME:
Your response should be:
HELLO<RETURN>
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MASTER CREATE will come back with:
REMEMBER THAT MASTER DOES NOT CREATE
THE GREETING PROGRAM, OR PLACE IT IN
THE DISK DIRECTORY
THIS IS THE FILE NAME THAT WILL BE
PLACED WITHIN THE IMAGE:
HELLO
PLACE THE DISKETTE TO BE MASTERED IN
THE DISK DRIVE.
PRESS [RETURN] WHEN READY
NOTE: IF YOU WANT A DIFFERENT FILE NAME,
PRESS [ESC]
Since you won’t care about having the “hello”
program created for you, simply remove the DOS
diskette from the drive and insert (one of) the
diskette(s) you just INITialized. Type:
<RETURN>
and MASTER CREATE will “master” your new diskette.
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When it is finished, it will respond with:
THE DISKETTE HAS BEEN UPDATED, YOU MAY
REMOVE IT AT THIS TIME.
IF YOU WISH TO “MASTER” ANOTHER DISK ETTE, PRESS (RETURN 1.
OTHERWISE PRESS [ESC] TO EXIT “MASTER”
If your system drive is an Elite Three, put the
other INITialized diskette in the drive and type
(Elite Three only):
<RETURN>
MASTER CREATE will then ask you to enter the
greeting program’s name again, so you should
again type (Elite Three only):
HELLO<RETURN>
After which, MASTER CREATE will ask you to press
<RETURN> again to “master” the disk, press
(Elite Three only):
<RETURN>
MASTER CREATE will again tell you when its finished.
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from the drive and insert the Rana Sys-
tems Enhancer Diskette. When it’s in, type:
BRUN ENHANCE <RETURN>
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No need to remove the diskette. Since no more is
required of MASTER CREATE, just type (for all
drives):
<ESC>
and you will get:
INSERT A SYSTEM DISKETTE AND PRESS
[RETURN] TO REBOoT DOS
So, of course, type:
<RETURN>
and your new DOS master will be magically booted
for you.
Now for a little enhancing. Remove the DOS master
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Once loaded, ENHANCE will respond with:
ENHANCE
RANA SYSTEMS’ ENHANCER FOR
APPLE’S APPLE ][ DOS VERSION 3.3
COPYRIGHT (C) (P) 1982 RANA SYSTEMS
ENHANCER VERSION 2.0
ENHANCEMENTS VERSION 2.0
INSERT DOS 3.3 SYSTEM MASTER DISK INTO
SLOT #6, DRIVE #1. PRESS <RETURN> WHEN
READY TO READ DOS IMAGE INTO MEMORY.
PRESS <ESC> TO TERMINATE THIS UTILITY.
(You may have more up to date version numbers.)
Remove the Enhancer diskette and insert your
newly created DOS master. Type:
<RETURN>
and ENHANCE will copy the master DOS into memory
and apply the necessary enhancements to it.
ENHANCE will then display:
INSERT DISK TO RECEIVE ENHANCED DOS 3.3
INTO SLOT #6, DRIVE #1. PRESS <RETURN>
WHEN READY TO WRITE ENHANCED DOS IMAGE.
PRESS <ESC> TO TERMINATE THIS UTILITY.
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Since you will be enhancing the newly created
DOS master, which is already in the drive, just
type:
<RETURN>
and ENHANCE will replace the “stupid” DOS on the
diskette with the enhanced smart” DOS.
After the replacement has been made, ENHANCE will
display:
ENHANCEMENTS COMPLETE. REBOOT THE SYSTEM
TO LOAD THE ENHANCED DOS 3.3.
This message will be followed by the BASIC
prompt.
The disk which you just enhanced should be labelled “configured enhanced system master” so
that it will be distinguishable from the other
disk you will need to create.
If your system drive is an Elite Three, you will
also need to enhance the other INITialized diskette. Insert the Enhancer diskette and type
(Elite Three only):
BRUN ENHANCE <RETURN>
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Once ENHANCE has displayed its message, insert
the other INITialized diskette and press (Elite
Three only):
<RETURN>
to tell ENHANCE to go ahead and read a copy of
DOS off of that diskette.
ENHANCE will then tell you when it is ready to
write the modified DOS hack out to the diskette,
and wait for you to press <RETURN>. Go ahead
and press (Elite Three Only):
<RETURN>
When done, ENHANCE will again return you to the
BASIC prompt. This second enhanced diskette
should he labelled “unconfigured enhanced system
master” (Elite Three only).
Place (or leave) “configured master” in the
drive, then type (all drives):
PR#6<RETURN>
To reboot your Apple using the enhanced DOS.
Once again, the drive will rattle and spin for a
moment; and then you will get:
FILE NOT FOUND
This message occurred because you deleted the
hello file from the diskette earlier during
these instructions. That way, these instruc—
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tions didn’t have to deal with any “strange”
hello program you may have had on the diskette.
You are now running under an enhanced DOS 3.3
system master. It already will recognize the
extra drives on an Elite Controller (if you are
using one). However, it is still treating all
your drives as Disk II’s (the minimum case).
The next step is to create an enhanced system
master which has the full storage of the drive
you are using as your system drive (slot six,
drive one). If all you have are Disk II drives,
you should continue following this procedure in
order to make a complete enhanced system master
(new utilities, etc.).
Remove the “configured master” and insert the
Enhancer diskette. Type:
BRUN PROFILE <RETURN>
PROFILE will respond with:
PROFILE V2.1 COPYR. (C)(P) 1982 RANA SYS.
FROM WHICH SLOT AND DRIVE
IS DOS IMAGE TO BE LOADED?
ENTER SLOT NUMBER (1-7)
Remove the Enhancer diskette and insert “configured master”. Type (without <RETURN>):
6
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and PROFILE will then ask:
ENTER DRIVE NUMBER (1—4)
so type (without <RETURN>):
1
PROFILE will then respond with:
INSERT AN ENHANCED DOS 3.3 SYSTEM
MASTER DISKETTE INTO SLOT #6, DRIVE #1.
PRESS <RETURN> WREN READY to READ DOS
IMAGE INTO MEMORY. PRESS <ESC> IF LOAD
NO LONGER DESIRED.
Go ahead and type:
<RETURN>
PROFILE will then read the DOS image off of
“configured master” and display a table containing each of the 28 different positions at
which drives can be placed on the Apple (seven
slots with up to four drives per slot using
Elite Controllers). The table will contain all
DISK2S” entries. Each entry is made up of two
different parts. The first five characters are
the drive type:
DISK2 = Apple Disk ][
ELIT1 = RANA Elite One
ELIT2 = RANA Elite Two
ELIT3 = RANA Elite Three
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The last letter is the speed at which the drive
is seeking from track to track:
S = Slow (Disk if standard)
M = Medium (Elite One standard)
F = Fast (Elite Two and Three standard)
Below the table, the following menu will be
displayed:
ENTER SELECTION (0-3) :
1) LOAD NEW DOS IMAGE FROM DISK
2) CHANGE CURRENT DOS IMAGE SETTING
3) SAVE CURRENT DOS IMAGE TO DISK
0) TERMINATE PROFILE
For now, you’ll just need to change the setting
for drive one off of slot six (your system
drive), so type (without <RETURN>):
2
in order to change a setting. PROFILE will then
ask:
ENTER SLOT NUMBER (1-7)
so type (without <RETURN>):
6
and PROFILE will respond with:
ENTER DRIVE NUMBER (1-4)
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So type (without <RETURN>):
1
Now that you’ve told PROFILE which drive’s setting to change, it’ll need to know what is to be
the new setting; so it will display:
ENTER DRIVE TYPE (0-3) : 0
0) APPLE DISK-II ( 35 TRACKS)
1) RANA ELITE ONE ( 40 TRACKS)
2) RANA ELITE TWO ( 80 TRACKS)
3) RANA ELITE THREE (160 TRACKS)
PROFILE “pre—loads” your answer with the current
setting for the drive (O=DISK -II). If you just
hit <RETURN> (don’t!), PROFILE will not change
the setting. But, you want to change the setting (unless you’re actually using an Apple Disk
II drive!!), so type the number for the menu item
which matches your system drive (without
<RETURN>).
For example, if you have an Elite One, type:
1
or, for an Elite Two, type:
2
or, for an Elite Three, type:
3
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or, if you’re stuck with a Disk II, type:
0
PROFILE will then ask for the seek speed of the
drive:
ENTER SEEK SPEED (0-2) :
0) SLOW (DISK-II AND ELITE SERIES)
1) MEDIUM (ELITE SERIES ONLY)
2) FAST (ELITE TWO AND THREE)
The “?” in the example will be the “pre-loaded”
answer (default) for the type of drive you specified on the previous menu. The default will be
the maximum possible seek speed for the drive
model specified. Now is not a good time to
fiddle with seek speeds (you’ll just complicate
matters), so just type:
<RETURN>
to use the default.
PROFILE will then update the configuration table
displayed at the top of the screen. It should
now show the correct setting for your system
drive. At the bottom of the table, you will
again get:
ENTER SELECTION (0-3)
1) LOAD NEW DOS IMAGE FROM DISK
2) CHANGE CURRENT DOS IMAGE SETTING
3) SAVE CURRENT DOS IMAGE TO DISK
0) TERMINATE PROFILE
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PROFILE has only made your change to the copy of
DOS it is holding in its storage areas. No
changes have been made to any diskette copy or
the copy which is running in memory. In order to
make use of the change, it will have to be
written to a diskette. To do this, type (without <RETURN>):
3
and PROFILE will respond with:
ENTER SLOT NUMBER (1-7)
Since “configured master” should still be in your
system drive, type (without <RETURN>):
6
and PROFILE will say:
ENTER DRIVE NUMBER (1-4)
so type (without <RETURN>):
1
PROFILE will then display:
INSERT FORMATTED DISKETTE TO RECIEVE
ENHANCED DOS 3.3 SYSTEM MASTER IMAGE
INTO SLOT #6, DRIVE #1. PRESS (RETURN>
WHEN READY TO WRITE DOS IMAGE FROM
MEMORY. PRESS <ESC> IF SAVE NO LONGER
DESIRED.
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To update the diskette, type:
<RETURN>
and PROFILE will over-write the old enhanced DOS
with the new one.
When it’s finished, it will return to the menu:
ENTER SELECTION (0-3)
1) LOAD NEW DOS IMAGE FROM DISK
2) CHANGE CURRENT DOS IMAGE SETTING
3) SAVE CURRENT DOS IMAGE TO DISK
0) TERMINATE PROFILE
Since you are finished with PROFILE for the time
being, type (without <RETURN>):
0
and PROFILE will terminate after saying:
THIS UTILITY DOES NOT APPLY YOUR
CHANGES TO THE CURRENTLY OPERATING DOS
IMAGE, SO YOU WILL NEED TO BOOT THE
DISKETTE TO WHICH YOU SAVED YOUR
CHANGES IN ORDER TO USE THE NEW
CONFIGURATION.
This is a reminder that the (in-memory) (current
operating) DOS has not been altered. Don’t
follow PROFILE’S instructions! This newly configured diskette probably won’t boot correctly.
Following the termination message, the BASIC
prompt will appear.
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The reason why this newly configured DOS probably won’t boot correctly is because you’ve told
the DOS image on the diskette that your system
drive is some special type of drive (assuming
you’re not using a Disk II). But the diskette
upon which this DOS is written is not formatted
for use by the special drive operating at its
full capacity. The next step is to create a
diskette which is correctly formatted.
Remove configured master and insert the Enhancer diskette. Type:
BRUN FORMAT<RETURN>
FORMAT will respond with:
FORMAT
RANA SYSTEMS’ 16-SECTOR DOS 3.3
5-INCH DISKETTE INITIALIZING UTILITY.
COPYRIGHT (C) (P) 1982 RANA SYSTEMS
FORMATTER VERSION 2.1
INSERT AN ENHANCED DOS 3.3 SYSTEM
MASTER DISKETTE INTO SLOT #6, DRIVE # 1.
PRESS <RETURN> WHEN READY TO READ DOS
IMAGE INTO MEMORY. PRESS <ESC> TO
TERMINATE THIS UTILITY.
Remove the Enhancer diskette and insert config—
tired master.
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Type:
<RETURN>
and FORMAT will read in the DOS image from that
diskette.
After the image is in memory, FORMAT will ask:
SLOT NUMBER (1-7)? 6
FORMAT is asking for the slot number of the
drive to be used for formatting. Just like
PROFILE, FORMAT has “pre—loaded” the message
with the default response. Since the default is
correct, type:
<RETURN>
And FORMAT will ask:
DRIVE NUMBER (1-4)? 2
This time FORMAT got the wrong default. FORMAT
assumes that it was run from a drive containing
a system diskette, so it must be the “other”
drive which you wish to use for formatting.
Since you will want to use the first drive
(one), type (without <RETURN>):
1
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FORMAT will then need to know:
TYPE OF FORMAT TO PERFORM (0—3)? 0
0) APPLE DISK-II ( 35 TRACKS)
1) RANA ELITE ONE ( 40 TRACKS)
2) RANA ELITE TWO ( 80 TRACKS)
3) RANA ELITE THREE (760 TRACKS)
Since the currently operating copy of DOS has
not been updated, it told FORMAT that the drive
you specified was set as a Disk II. Therefore,
FORMAT will default to a Disk II format. You’ll
need to override this by typing whichever menu
item number is correct for the drive you are
using as your system drive (without <RETURN>).
For example, an Elite One would be:
1
an Elite Two would be:
2
an Elite Three would be:
3
and the lowly Disk II would be;
0
Then FORMAT will ask:
VOLUME NUMBER (1-254)? 254
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The default FORMAT has provided is the standard
Apple default which un—enhanced DOS’s INIT command would use. Therefore, simply type:
<RETURN>
Next FORMAT will inquire:
HI FILE? HELLO
FORMAT isn’t trying to be cute, it’s just that a
short prompt like “HI FILE?” allows a full 30
character file name (allowed under DOS) to he
typed all on one line. The “hi” file is the
“hello” or “greeting” program’s name. For now,
just type:
<RETURN>
to use the default (“HELLO”).
The last thing FORMAT will ask is:
INVOICE HELLO FILE HOW (A-C)? A
A) RUN <HI FILE>
B) BRUN <HI FILE>
C) EXEC <HI FILE>
FORMAT is giving you a little option which
standard DOS’s INIT does not provide. This is
discussed further in a later section which deals
with each utility separately.
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For now, just type:
<RETURN>
to use the default (RUN <HI FILE>).
That’s all the information FORMAT needs, so it
will say:
INSERT DISKETTE TN DRIVE. PRESS
<RETURN> TO INITIALIZE, PRESS <ESC>
TO CHANGE PARAMETERS.
Now is the time to remove configured master”
from the drive and insert your second (or third)
blank diskette (mentioned earlier). Remember,
this diskette will be completely erased. When
it’s in, type:
<RETURN>
and then FORMAT will check to see if the diskette has been 16—sector formatted before. If it
has, you will get:
DISKETTE CONTAINS DATA.
INITIALIZE ANYWAYS (Y/N)?
If it is okay to erase the diskette, type (withOut <RETURN>):
Y
and FORMAT will proceed with the initialization.
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to try it out. A “FILE NOT FOUND” message
should be expected.
There is still one last thing which you need to
do. You need to transfer all the utility programs supplied on the Enhancer diskette onto
your “full capacity enhanced system master”. If
your system (boot) drive is an Elite Three, then
there is a small preliminary step which you will
need to perform before the utility files can be
transferred. If your system drive isn’t an
Elite Three, then this following procedure which
will use the CLONE utility can be skipped.
If you’re an Elite Three user, you should remove
your enhanced system master from the boot drive
and insert “unconfigured master”.
Type (Elite Three only):
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When finished, FORMAT will display:
DO ANOTHER DISKETTE (Y/N)?
Type (without <RETURN>):
N
and FORMAT will terminate back to the BASIC
prompt.
You now have a full capacity diskette for your
system drive which will boot correctly, so type:
PR#6<RETURN>
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PR#6
You should get a “FILE NOT FOUND” message.
Then remove “unconfigured master” and insert the
Enhancer diskette. Type (Elite Three only):
BRUN CLONE<RETURN>
Once CLONE is loaded, it will “sign on” with:
CLONE
RANA SYSTEMS’ 16-SECTOR DOS 3.3
5-INCH DISKETTE COPY UTILITY.
COPYRIGHT (C) (P) 1982 RANA SYSTEMS
CLONE VERSION 2. 1
CLONE will then ask:
CLONE TYPE TO PERFORM: 0
0) WHOLE DISKETTE
1) DOS ONLY
Just type (Elite Three only):
(RETURN>
You will then he asked:
SOURCE:
SLOT NUMBER (1-7)? 6
Just press (Elite Three only):
<RETURN>
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Next comes:
DRIVE NUMBER (1—4)? 1
Just press (Elite Three only):
<RETURN>
The next question is:
DISKETTE TYPE (0-0)? 0
Again, simply press (Elite Three only):
<RETURN>
That ends all the source drive/diskette questions. Now for the destination ones:
DESTINATION:
SLOT NUMBER (1—7)? 6
The default is okay, so press (Elite Three only):
<RETURN>
After the slot number question comes:
DRIVE NUMBER (1-4)? 2
But this time you need to type (Elite Three
only, without <RETURN>):
1
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The last question is:
DISKETTE TYPE (0-3)? 0
And for this question, respond with (Elite Three
only, without <RETURN>):
3
After which CLONE will display a notice
concerning the use of the Elite Three backup
diskette you have indicated you wish to create.
In order to tell CLONE that you’ve seen the
message, press (Elite Three only):
<RETURN>
CLONE will then be ready to start the copy
process, and it will tell you when it needs you
to insert the source diskette or the destination
diskette. The source diskette is your DOS 3.3
System Master from Apple. For the destination
diskette, you can use “configured master” since
it is no longer needed and won’t boot correctly
on an Elite Three.
After each time you change the diskette in your
system drive in response to CLONE’s requests,
simply press <RETURN> to tell CLONE to continue.
After several diskette change requests, CLONE
will finally say:
DO ANOTHER COPY (Y/N)?
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In response, type (Elite Three only, no
<RETURN>):
Y
and CLONE will once again prompt you to insert
your source diskette. This time, the source
diskette will be the Elite Enhancer diskette. The
destination diskette will be your fourth
diskette, which you’ve not used so far. Swap
these diskettes back and forth as CLONE requests
them, pressing <RETURN> when you have made the
exchange.
When CLONE is finished, it will again return to:
DO ANOTHER COPY (Y/N)?
Since CLONE has done all you require of it for
the time being, type (Elite Three only, no
<RETURN>):
N
and CLONE will return you to the BASIC prompt.
Insert your “full capacity system master” and
then type (Elite Three only):
PR#6<RETURN>
to boot that diskette. “FILE NOT FOUND” should
be expected.
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At this point, if you are a non-Elite Three
system drive user, you should continue with the
procedure.
It is now necessary to transfer Apple’s utility
FID onto your higher capacity diskette, so insert either your DOS 3.3 Master Diskette (if you
are not using an Elite Three as your system
drive), or the CLONE you made of the DOS 3.3
Master Diskette (if you are using an Elite Three
as your system drive).
Type (all system drive types):
BRUN FID<RETURN>
For instructions on how to use FID, refer to
Apple’s The DOS Manual. For now, just type:
1<RETURN>
in order to begin a file copy.
When FID asks for the source slot number, type:
6<RETURN>
For the source drive number, type:
1<RETURN>
For the destination slot number, type:
6<RETURN>
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And for the destination drive number, type:
1<RETURN>
FID will then ask for the name of the file to
copy, so type:
FID<RETURN>
After which, FID will give you a chance to
either press <ESC> if you made an entry error,
or <RETURN> to begin the copy.
Assuming your entries were correct, type:
<RETURN>
FID will then being asking for the source and
destination diskettes just like CLONE did. The
source diskette is your DOS 3.3 System Master
(or the CLONE of it if you are using an Elite
Three), and the destination diskette is your
“full capacity system master”. Once you inserted the diskette FID requested, press:
<RETURN>
to tell FID to continue.
FID will tell you when it has finished the copy,
and wait for you to press <RETURN’>. So go ahead
and press:
<RETURN>
and FID will redisplay its main menu.
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“full capacity system master”. To do this,
type:
1 <RETURN>
to tell FID you want to copy another file.
This time FID will only want to know the name of
the file to copy, so type:
FID ENHANCE<RETURN>
Once more, FID will give you a chance to press
<ESC> if you typed the name wrong, or <RETURN>
to proceed with the copy.
Given that you entered the name correctly,
press:
<RETURN>
FID will wait for you to insert the source
diskette. This time the source diskette will be
the Enhancer diskette (or the CLONE of it if you
are using an Elite Three). The destination
diskette will be the “full capacity system master” onto which you copied FID earlier.
Press:
<RETURN>
whenever you have finished inserting whichever
diskette FID requests.
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The next step is to copy FID ENHANCE onto the
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FID will again tell you when it has completed
the copy, and wait for you to press <RETURN>.
So press:
<RETURN>
and the main menu will be redisplayed.
You are finished using FID, so type:
9<RETURN>
to get back to BASIC.
Now to modify FID so that the rest of the system
master and Enhancer files can be copied. Make
sure your “full capacity system master” is in
the drive, then type:
BRUN FID ENHANCE<RETURN>
FID ENHANCE will go ahead and modify FID without
any response from you. When finished, the new
modified FID will he saved onto the diskette as
FIDR. FIDR should always he used with the higher capacity Elite Series drives since FID will
make mistakes under certain circumstances (which
were taken into account by these instructions).
Once FID ENHANCE has finished, and it has returned to the BASIC prompt, type:
UNLOCK FID <RETURN>
and then:
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DELETE FID<RETURN>
to get rid of the old FID. Then type:
LOCK FIDR<RETURN>
to keep the new FIDR safe.
The last step is to transfer the remainder of
the system master programs (supplied by Apple)
and the Enhancer utilities onto your "full capacity system master.
To do this, type:
BRUN FIDR<RETURN>
FIDR works exactly the same way FID does, as
described in Apple’s The COS Manual.
For now, choose the copy files menu item by
typing:
1<RETURN>
FIDR will then ask for the source and destination slot and drive numbers.
Answer these questions with:
6<RETURN>
1<RETURN>
6<RETURN>
1<RETURN>
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FIDR will then ask for the name of the file to
copy. Indicate all files by typing:
=<RETURN>
Because you indicated more than one file, FIDR
will want to know if you want “prompting”.
Prompting allows you to say yes or no to each
file before it is copied. In response to the
question, type:
Y<RETURN>
to indicate you do want prompting.
FIDR will then give you a chance to type <ESC>
if you entered something wrong, or <RETURN> to
proceed with the copy.
Assuming your answers were correct, type:
<RETURN>
Then FIDR will ask for the source diskette. The
source diskette is the DOS 3.3 system Master (or
CLONE of it if using an Elite Three). Press:
<RETURN>
to tell FIDR when you have finished inserting the
diskette.
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FIDR will then display a file name from the
source diskette, and wait for you to type:
Y<RETURN>
or:
N<RETURN>
to specify either “yes” you want the file copied, or “no” you don’t want it copied.
You want to say “yes” to only the following
files:
HELLO
APPLESOFT
BOOT 13
CHAIN
FPBASIC
INTBASIC
MAKE TEXT
RENUMBER
RENUMBER INSTRUCTIONS
The remainder are demonstration files which need
not be copied, and which will take up needed
room if using a Disk II or Elite One as your
system drive.
Whenever you tell FIDR “yes” (go ahead and copy
the file), it will ask you to insert the destination diskette. The destination diskette is the
“full capacity system master”.
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Once you’ve inserted this diskette, type:
<RETURN>
to tell FIDR it can continue.
Eventually, after saying "yes" and "no" to alot
of file names, and swapping the diskettes several times, FIDR will finally tell you it is
finished. To tell FIDR to return to the main
menu, press:
<RETURN>
Once back to the main menu, type:
1<RETURN>
to begin copying the files from the Enhancer
diskette.
FIDR will not ask for the drive information this
time, it will use your answers from the last
copy. It will, however, ask you for a file
name. To this question, answer:
<RETURN>
just like last time. (Don’t worry, there’s not
as many files on the Enhancer diskette.)
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Once again, FIDR will ask if you want prompting.
This time, answer:
N<RETURN>
to tell FIDR to copy all the files without asking
you.
FIDR will again give you a chance, to press <ESC>
if you made a mistake, or <RETURN> if everything
is okay. Given everything is okay, press:
<RETURN>
FIDR will then he gin asking for the source and
destination diskettes. The source diskette is the
Enhancer (or CLONE of it if using the Elite
Three), and the destination is the “full capacity system master”. When you have finished
inserting the diskette for which FIDR has asked,
press:
<RETURN>
to tell FIDR to continue.
FIDR will tell you when it has finished copying
all the files, and wait for you to press
<RETURN>. Oblige it by pressing:
<RETURN>
to return to the main menu.
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Once back at the menu, type:
9<RETURN>
to get back to BASIC.
At this point, your “full capacity system master” is complete as far as your system drive is
concerned. You will still need to refer to the
instructions concerning the PROFILE utility
later in this manual in order to configure your
“full capacity system master” to talk to any
other drives on your system.
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the first 35 tracks of the disk This feature
is useful for creating a disk to send to other
Apple CP/M Users.
As you have probably noted by now, these instructions keep referring to Microsoft’s Apple
][ CP/M 56K version. The Elite Enhancements for
CP/M only apply to the 56K version Rana does
not support enhancements to the 44K version of
CP/M since doing so would require "stealing"
space from the user’s program area in memory.
Something which Rana absolutely does not want to
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4.ENHANCING MICROSOFT APPLE II CP/M 2.2
Rana Systems Enhancements for Microsoft’s Apple
if 56K CP/M 2.2 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 the CP/M operating system to recognize
which drives are Rana Elite Drives and which are
Apple Disk If drives. The seek rate may also be
increased by the PROFILE program to take advantage of the increased speed of Rana drives. If
the disk is run on another Apple the enhanced
CP/M will automatically recognize which controllers are Rana and which are Disk If and only try
to access the correct number of drives for the
particular controller type. Changes in drive
combinations may require redefining.
Drives may be temporarily reconfigured in memory
only to temporarily make a Rana drive act like
an Apple Disk If drive and confine the files to
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ever type disk controller is in slot six.
Drives C: through H: will change on the enhanced
CP/M if an Elite Controller card is in the
system.
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do. The 56K version of CP/M can he modified to
support the Elite Series products without stealing space from the user’s memory area, because
Rana used a little “hidden~ section of memory in
the 16K RuM/Language Card (which -is required for
56K CP/M) which Microsoft left available. This
small restriction should not prove to be too
much of a hardship since serious Apple if CP/M
users soon find that 44K is just not enough in
which to run some of the more advanced CP/M
programs.
The Apple CP/M operating system addresses disk
drives by a letter followed by a colon, A: B:
etc. up to P:. Apple ][ CP/M selects drives
from the highest slot number first, starting
with slot six, There must he a controller card
in slot six, and any additional controller cards
must he in slot five, etc. Although CP/M as an
operating system recognizes drives A: through
P:, Microsoft’s Apple if version of CP/M has a
necessary limitation of only supporting up to
six drives (A: through F:). The enhanced version of Apple if CP/M will support up to eight
drives (A: through H:). This allows all drives
on two four-drive Elite Controllers to he used.
(Of course, four two-drive Disk if controllers
could also be used; or any combination totaling
no more than eight drives.)
On both enhanced and non-enhanced CP/M, drives
A: and B: would he drives one and two on which-
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enhanced CP/M master diskette. The system
tracks from this diskette can then he used to
create any number of additional CP/M system
diskettes that utilize the desired Rana fea-
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When hooted, the enhanced CP/M checks all the
controllers in the Apple to determine which are
Elite Controllers and which are Disk ][ controllers, starting from slot six and working backwards. Whenever an Elite Controller card is
found, the next four CP/M drive letters will be
assigned to the four drives of which the Elite
Controller is capable. If a Disk It controller
is found, then only the next two CP/M drive
letters will be assigned to that card. The
system then moves on to the card in the next
lower slot. This continues until either all
eight drive letters have been assigned to a
controller, or there are no more disk control—
lers in the Apple.
Although the enhanced CP/M will use the drives
on any disk controller in any slot (except slot
zero), you should stick with the CP/M slot assignment convention given in the Microsoft CP/M
manuals; and place your controller cards only in
slots six through four.
The Rana CP/M Enhancements Diskette does not
have a copy of the CP/M Operating System and
will not boot CP/M into the computer. However,
certain areas of the diskette are initialized in
a CP/M format, allowing those CP/M programs on
the Enhancer diskette to be run once the system
is hooted from a CP/M master. The Rana Elite
Enhancements Disk will he used to create a new
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manual. The instructions for enhancing CP/M
have been duplicated into two sub-sections. The
first is for users with more than one drive, for
which there are easier approaches to some
things. The second is for single drive users,
for which Rana has supplied a special utility to
make life slightly easier.
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tures, but don’t have all the CP/M utilities
occupying the space the user needs to put to
better use.
The following steps will guide you in creating
your enhanced CP/M 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
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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 in—
structions 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”.
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4.1. Using Multiple Drives
These instructions detail a very specific approach to creating an enhanced CP/M for any
valid combination of Elite drives, Elite Controllers, Disk 1! drives, and Disk ][ controllers which any user can possibly dream up. This
places upon these instructions an almost impossible task, considering the vivid imagination of
many users. Since the use of only a single
drive complicates the instructions by a con-
siderable amount, the single drive instructions
have been given their own section following
these multi-drive instructions.
These instructions have been written in a stepby—step manner, with some explanation of what is
being done at each step. AU of these instructions 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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The length of these instructions is due to the
fact that this will be your initial creation of
an enhanced CP/M. Once this initial diskette is
created, life becomes alot easier. Even though
the instructions are lengthy, they are not terribly complex to follow.
If you intend to make use of either an Elite Two
or Three drive as your system drive (A:), it may
be necessary to temporarily configure your system in a different configuration than what will
be your final configuration. A temporary problem arises if you do not have a second Elite Two
or Three to match the one you will be using as
drive A:. This is because you do not, as of
yet, have a copy of CP/M which can deal with
various combinations of drives. Since these
multi-drive enhancement instructions only rely
on you having two drives, you will only need to
rearrange your A: and B: drives. Regardless of
the type of drive you will be using as A: in
your final configuration, you should temporarily
reconfigure your system according to the following table:
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Final Configuration Temporary Config.
Drive A: Drive B: Drive A: Drive B:
Disk ][ Disk ][ Disk ][ Disk ][
Disk ][ Elite One Elite One Disk ][
Disk ][ Elite Two Elite Two Disk ][
Disk ][ Elite Three Elite Three Disk ][
Elite One Disk ][ Disk ][ Elite One
Elite One Elite One Elite One Elite One
Elite One Elite Two Elite Two Elite One
Elite One Elite Three Elite Three Elite One
Elite Two Disk ][ Disk ][ Elite Two
Elite Two Elite One Elite One Elite Two
Elite Two Elite Two Elite Two Elite Two
Elite Two Elite Three Elite Three Elite Two
Elite Three Disk ][ Disk ][ Elite Three
Elite Three Elite One Elite One Elite Three
Elite Three Elite Two Elite Two Elite Three
Elite Three Elite Three Elite Three Elite Three
Any additional drives you may have (C:, D:, etc)
can he arranged in whatever final configuration
you like since these instructions will, for the
most part, ignore them.
Once you have your system into the temporary
configuration, it’s time to get started. Turn
on the computer with no disks in the drives. If
you have the Autostart feature, CP/M’s drive A:
should rattle for a hit and then sit there
quietly spinning waiting for a diskette. If you
have an old Apple, you may not have the Autostart feature, so you will need to tell your
Apple to start-up the drive.
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A Non-Autostart Apple will “beep” then display
an asterisk (“*”) prompt right away. When this
prompt appears, simply type:
6<CTRL-P><RETURN>
When indicating those keys on the Apple ][ keyboard which are not just a single character
(i.e. RETURN, CTRL, ESC, etc.) these instruc—
tions will show the key enclosed in angle brackets (RETURN>) to indicate that the single key
with that label is to be pressed, and not that
the key sequence “R”, “E”, “T”, “U”, “R”, and “N”
should be typed. Combined key sequences such as
<CTRL—P> indicate that the <CTRL> key should be
held down while the “P” key is pressed.
The “6<CTRL-P>(RETURN>” command assumes that
your disk controller card (Elite or Disk 1!) is
located in slot number six. If it isn’t, it
should be moved to slot six (with power off,
please) since CP/M will expect it to be there.
Should either Integer or Applesoft BASIC’s prompt
(“>“or “]”) appear on the screen, then your
Autostart Apple could not find any disk
controller cards. (Disk controllers won’t work in
slot zero, and CP/M will want the controller in
slot six.) If your controller is in slot six,
then there may be something wrong with the
controller. (This section of the manual cannot
cope with problems, check the Table of Contents
for the section which can.)
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ness. Insert the Rana Enhancer Diskette in
drive B: (slot six, drive two), then type:
DIR B:<RETURN>
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When all goes well, one of your drives’ “busy”
light will be on and the drive should be quietly
spinning waiting for a diskette. Simply oblige
it by inserting your CP/M master diskette from
Microsoft. (Label should be up and the last
thing to go in the door.) Then close the drive
door slowly. The door may require a slight
amount of force, but there should be no solid
resistance against its closing. If there is
solid resistance, you probably haven’t inserted
the diskette all the way.
Your Apple will respond by displaying the CP/M
“sign on” message including Microsoft’s copyright notice. This indicates that you have just
successfully “booted” CP/M (congratulations).
Part of the “sign on” message will indicate that
you have just booted a 44K CP/M system. This is
correct, you will create a 56K system as part of
these enhancement procedures. The last thing
your Apple should say is “A>”. This is your
prompt to enter a command. A real quick one to
try for you first time CP/M users is:
DIR<RETURN>
CP/M will indulge you by displaying the files
which Microsoft so nicely included with the CP/M
operating system.
Enough playing, time to get back down to busi-
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Once again CP/M will indulge you by displaying
those files which Rana so nicely supplied you.
(What a pair of nice companies, right?) (if you
are an Elite Three user, keep in mind that your
drive will read standard Apple diskettes.) This
little exercise shows that the enhancer diskette
should be okay.
The next step is to format a blank diskette.
For now, you’ll need to use the FORMAT utility
Microsoft supplied on the CP/M master until
you’ve created an enhanced CP/M. To get FORMAT
running, simply type:
FORMAT<RETURN>
(Tough, right?) After CP/M loads the utility
into memory, FORMAT will “sign on” by saying
something like:
Apple ][ CP/M
16 Sector Disk Formatter
(C) 1980 Microsoft
Format disk in which drive?
If any part of your “sign on” message is different, you may have a newer version In such a
case, it would be wise to look up FORMAT in your
CP/M manuals to make sure Microsoft didn’t
change something for which these instructions
have yet to be updated.
Now you will need a diskette you can format
(you’ll also need a second one later). If you
want to format a used disk remember that all the
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DOS 3.3 or Apple Pascal diskettes you may
have had lying around. If you plan on formatting an Elite Two or Three diskette (higher
capacity) you should check the Recommended Diskettes section of this manual.
If you’re an Elite Three only user, you may have
noticed that you are about to do a standard
Apple Disk ][ format (which means doing some
writing) on an Elite Three which is only supposed to be read compatible. This is true.
However, since this procedure will not expect a
non—Elite Three to read this diskette, it will
all come out okay in the end.
IMPORTANT! A safe idea before continuing is to
remove the enhanced CP/M master and Enhancements
diskettes (and any other already recorded diskettes) from the drives, but remember to reinsert
them once the formatting has finished.
Once you have a diskette, take out the CP/M
master from drive A: and put in the blank diskette. Then type:
A: <RETURN>
FORMAT will respond with:
Insert disk to be formatted in drive A:
Press RETURN to begin
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files as well as the system tracks will be
erased. Format will normally detect an already
formatted 16 sector disk and ask you to verify
that you want the disk erased. This includes any
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You should then oblige it by typing:
<RETURN>
FORMAT will respond with:
Formatting...
Drive A: will then rattle for about a minute,
and FORMAT will come back with:
FORMAT Complete
Format disk in which drive?
Since format has done all you require of it,
simply type:
<RETURN>
FORMAT will then respond with:
Insert CP/M System disk in drive A:
Press RETURN
This smart little utility remembered you had
taken the CP/M master diskette out off drive A:
so you could insert the blank disk to be formatted. Follow its direction and remove the blank
diskette from A: and re-insert the CP/M master
diskette. When you have it in, type:
<RETURN>
The CP/M system prompt (NA>) should then appear.
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The CP/M Operating System and all the utility
programs on the Apple CP/M master now need to be
copied onto your newly formatted disk. The
original Microsoft COPY utility supplied on your
Apple CP/M Master will do the job nicely. To
get it started, type:
COPY<RETURN>
After COPY is loaded into memory, it will “sign
on” by saying:
APPLE ][ CP/M
16 Sector Disk Copy Utility
(C) 1980 Microsoft
*
The asterisk (“*”) prompt indicates COPY is
ready to go.
Remove the Apple CP/M master in drive A:, and
place the newly formatted empty disk in instead.
Place the CP/M master in drive E: It won’t
matter what type of drive is where, it’ll all
come out okay if one of the temporary con figurations given in the earlier table is in use.
Following the asterisk (“*”) prompt type:
A:B: <RETURN>
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The utility will respond with:
Insert MASTER disk into drive B:
Insert SLAVE disk into drive A:
Press RETURN to begin
Type:
<RETURN>
COPY will then respond with:
Copying...
COPY will then proceed to read a little from
drive B:, and then write it to drive A:; repeating this process until the entire diskette
is copied. Once COPY has finished, it will
display:
COPY Complete
DD you wish to make another copy?
Your newly formatted diskette (in drive A:) will
now contain all the utilities and the operating
system from the. Apple CP/M master. The CP/M
operating system on this disk is the one which
you will eventually enhance.
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Take your Apple CP/M Master Diskette from B: and
put it away in a safe place. You should no
longer need it except in an emergency. Then
type:
N
to end the COPY utility. (Note: no <RETURN> is
necessary.) COPY, like FORMAT, will remember
that you have removed the CP/M master from drive
A:, so it will say:
Insert CP/M System disk into drive A:
Hit RETURN
Since the diskette in drive A: (the one which
was the blank disk) now contains an exact copy
of the CP/M master, go ahead and type:
Once CP/M responds with its "A>”, you can check
up on the COPY utility by typing
DIR<RETURN>
and seeing the directory of programs on the new
CP/M master disk.
The CPM56 utility from Microsoft must now be run
to create a 56K operating system on your new
master diskette. To get CPM56 to upgrade your
44K system diskette to a 56K system diskette,
type:
CPM56 A: <Return>
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CP/M will load the CPM56 utility into memory,
then the utility will display:
Apple II CP/M
56K CP/M Disk Update Program
(C) 1980 Microsoft
Insert 16 sector disk into drive A:
Hit RETURN to begin
Since the system disk you want to update to 56K
is the one you already have in drive A:, simply
press:
<RETURN>
CPM56 will write out the 56K CP/M system image
onto the diskette and then display:
Disk has been updated to 56K
Hit RETURN~T to re—boot system
You will want to work with this 56K system, so
type:
<RETURN>
Drive A: will rattle again and then CP/M will
“sign back on” with the Microsoft copyright
message. But, this time the message will say
“56K” where it said “44K” last time you booted
the system. The Rana Enhancement utility will now
change the CP/M operating system to utilize the
features of the Rana Controller and Drives,
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and permanently place the Enhanced CP/M on the
disk’s system tracks.
The new copy of the CP/M Master disk should be
in drive A: and the “A>” prompt should be on the
screen. Place the Rana Elite Enhancements Disk
in drive B: and type:
B:ENHANCE <RETURN>
Once CP/M gets the ENHANCE utility loaded, the
utility will display:
ENHANCE
RANA Systems’ Enhancer for
Microsoft’s Apple II 56K CP/M BIOS
Copyright (C)(P) 1982 RANA Systems
Version 1. 7
BIOS Image
Primary Copyright 1981 Microsoft
Portions Copyright 1982 RANA Systems
Insert a *COPY* of your Microsoft 56K
CP/M 2.2 distribution diskette into
drive A:. Please do *NOT* insert your
original diskette from Microsoft.
Press <RETURN> when diskette inserted
and ready to be enhanced. Press any
other key to terminate this program
without enhancing the diskette.
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Once that mouthful has finished displaying,
type:
<RETURN>
ENHANCE will go out and replace those sections
of the original Microsoft 56K CP/M with that
information which is necessary to use the advanced features of the Rana Elite products.
Once ENHANCE is finished, it will display:
Enhancing completed. Press <RETURN>
to reboot system from slot #6.
Since you will want to start playing with the
enhanced CP/M right away, press:
<RETURN>
and ENHANCE will re-boot the enhanced CP/M systern.
The first enhancement you will notice on the
enhanced CP/M is the additional Rana Systems
copyright notice right below Microsoft’s. This
is an easy way to make sure you have booted an
enhanced CP/M. Elite Controller users with more
than two drives attached to the controller will
find that CP/M now recognizes the (those) extra
drive(s). If you are one such user, and your
Elite Controller is the one in slot six, place
the Elite Enhancer Diskette in the third drive
on the controller (drive C:) and type:
DiR C: <RETURN>
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CP/M will now give you a directory off that
drive. (Wasn’t that fun!)
In order to complete the enhanced CP/M master
diskette, you will need to move the enhanced
utilities onto the master diskette from the
Enhancements diskette. The standard CP/M PIP
utility is designed for this little task. (PIP
stands for Peripheral Interchange Programs.)
In order to make room for the new utilities on
the master diskette, it will be necessary to
remove the old ones first. Type the following
two CP/M commands. After each command, CP/M
will simply respond with “A>”.
ERA FORMAT. COM<RETURN>
ERA COPY. COM<RETURN>
These two commands ERAsed the old FORMAT and
COPY utilities. Now, to copy the new utilities
onto the enhanced CP/M master, insert the Enhancements diskette into drive B:. Then type
the following CP/M commands. After each command, CP/M will respond with “A> when it has
finished copying the file.
PIP A:=B:FORMAT.COM[V]<RETURN>
PIP A:=B:COPY.COM[V]<RETURN>
PIP A:=B:PROFILE.COM[V]<RETURN>
Each command tells the PIP utility to copy the
specified file from drive B: to drive A:. The
“[V]” part tells PIP to verify that each file
was copied correctly. If you’re a first time
Apple CF/N user, the “[“ character is produced
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by typing <CTRL—K>, and the “]” character is
produced by typing <SHIFT-M>. The Apple keyboard is not marked with (at least one of) these
characters. If you are using a special keyboard
modification or 80-column board, you will probably need to consult the manual for that product
concerning special keyboard characters under
CP/M.
The next step is to create a system diskette
which gives you the full storage capability of
the drive you will be using as drive A:. If you
will be using a Disk ][ as drive A:, then you
can simply read through all the steps up to the
rebooting of the system. Continue following the
instructions right after the point where the
system is rebooted.
The first step in creating a system diskette for
your higher capacity Elite drive is to format a
diskette for the drive to use when it starts
operating in a higher capacity way. Since you
now have an enhanced CP/M, you can now run the
new FORMAT utility in order to create these
higher capacity diskettes. To get the new
FORMAT started, type:
FORMAT<RETURN>
Once CP/M loads it in, FORMAT will respond with:
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APPLE ][ CP/M
16 Sector Disk Formatter
Primary Copyright 1980 Microsoft
Portions Copyright 1982 RANA Systems
RANA Systems Version 1.1
Format disk in which drive?
In order to create a higher capacity diskette,
you will need to choose, from the following
table, whatever type of format would be suitable
for the drive you currently have as drive B:.
0 - Apple Disk ][ ( 35 tracks)
1 - RANA Elite One ( 40 tracks)
2 — RANA Elite Two ( 80 tracks)
3 - RANA Elite Three (160 tracks)
Once you have the drive type number from the
table, type (without <RETURN>):
B:
followed by the drive type number. For example,
if you have an Elite Two as drive B:, you would
type:
B: 2
If you are stuck with just Apple Disk if drives,
then you would type:
B: 0
You should be careful to specify the correct
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drive type for the drive being used as drive B:.
FOR MAT cannot always catch that the drive was
unable to handle the type of format you requested. The disk will appear to be correctly formatted but will cause a CP/M Disk I/O error or
BDOS error at some later stage, or your new CP/M
may not boot.
Once you’ve specified the formatting information, type:
<RETURN>
FORMAT will respond with:
Insert disk to be formatted in drive B:
Press RETURN to begin
Insert that second blank diskette which was
mentioned earlier into drive B:, then type:
<RETURN>
FORMAT will respond with:
Formatting...
The drive will chatter and spin for almost a
minute, (or two if formatting an Elite Two or
Three diskette), then the screen will display:
FORMAT Complete
Format disk in which drive?
To end the FORMAT utility, press:
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<RETURN>
without specifying any drive information. CP/M
will eventually respond with “A>”.
Before you can copy the system onto the diskette
in drive B: in the correct format, you will need
to inform the enhanced CP/M of drive B:‘s type.
This is accomplished using the PROFILE utility.
Just like the other utilities, get it started by
typing:
PROFILE<RETURN>
its “sign on” is:
APPLE ][ CP/M
Drive Configuration Utility
Copyright (C)(P) 1982 RANA Systems
Version 1. 1
*
There is slot more to this utility than what you
will make use of right now. For now, type
(without <RETURN>):
B:
followed by the drive type number you used earlier during FORMAT.
For example, if drive B: is an Elite Two you
would type:
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B:2
Once you’ve typed the drive type number, press:
<RETURN~>
and PROFILE will respond with:
Was B: Apple Disk-][ Slow seek.
and:
Now B: RANA Elite One, Medium seek.
or:
Now B: RANA Elite Two, Fast seek.
or:
Now B: RANA Elite Three, Fast seek.
followed by:
Ready to update in-memory system.
<RETURN> to continue/retry;
<ESC> or <CTRL-C> to abort.
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Since you, no doubt, entered the command correctly and received the response which would be
correct for whichever type of drive you have as
drive B:, simply press:
and PROFILE will update the current operating
CP/M so that it recognizes drive B: as whatever
drive B: should he.
After PROFILE updates the CP/M system, it will
return to the asterisk (“*”) prompt. To get out
of PROFILE, type (without <RE,TURN>):
<CTRL -C>
CP/M will respond with “A>”.
Unlike Apple DOS’s “INIT” command, CP/M’s FORMAT
does not place a copy of the operating system
(in this case, CP/M) onto the newly formatted
diskette. This task is left up to the COPY
utility, which will place a copy of CP/M onto an
existing diskette without altering any other
information on the diskette. Since that is what
you will want to do now, type:
COPY<RETURN>
to get the new COPY utility running.
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Once it’s loaded, it will respond with:
APPLE ][ CP/M
16 Sector Disk Copy Utility
Primary Copyright 1980 Microsoft
Portions Copyright 1982 RANA Systems
RANA Systems Version 1.1
*
Once again, the “*” signals that COPY is ready
for a command. This time, however, the command
will he slightly different. Type:
B:A:/S<RETURN>
Just like with the first time you used Microsoft’s COPY, this command tells COPY to copy
information from drive A: to drive B:; hut the
added “/S” tells COPY to copy just the system
from one drive to the other and to not disturb
the other information on the diskette in drive
B;. Copy will respond with:
Insert SOURCE disk into drive A:
Insert TARGET disk into drive B:
Press RETURN to begin
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Since the two diskettes are already inserted,
type:
<RETURN>
and copy will respond with:
Copying...
This time COPY will make one read on drive A:,
and then one write on drive B:. The new COPY
utility will place the CP/M system onto the
diskette in drive B: in the proper format so
that the diskette will later boot correctly
using that drive (or another drive of the same
type). When COPY is finished it will display:
COPY Complete
Do you wish to make another copy?
Once again, simply type (without <RETURN>):
N
Since drive A: was used as one of the drives
during the copy, COPY will remind you to reinsert the CP/M master diskette back into drive A:
by saying:
Insert CP/M System disk into drive A:
Hit RETURN
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The enhanced CP/M master was never removed, so
just type:
<RETURN>
and the CP/M “A>” prompt will appear.
At this point in the procedures you have created
a diskette which will boot correctly (up to a
point) on the type of drive you will eventually
be using as drive A:, but the CP/M system which
is on the diskette for that drive still thinks
that drive A: is a Disk ][. This is because the
system you copied (the one on the enhanced master diskette) was still treating drive A: as a
Disk H. In fact, that copy of CP/M thinks that
all drives on your system are Disk If drives
right now. To remedy this problem for just drive
A: for now, get back into PROFILE by typing:
PROFILE<RETURN>
Again, the utility will “sign on” with:
Apple ][ CP/M
Drive Configuration Utility
Copyright Cc). (p) 1982 RANA Systems
Version 1.1
*
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Now let’s take a look at why the enhanced CP/M
is treating all your drives just like Disk ][
drives. Type:
B:=*<RETURN>
This tells PROFILE to go Look at the drive
configuration table contained within the enhanced CP/M system sitting on the diskette in
drive B:, and tell you which drive letter (A:
through P:) is set to which drive type. PROFILE
will first ask for the diskette to be inserted
into drive B: by saying:
Insert a system disk in B:.
<RETURN> to continue/retry;
<ESC> or <CTRL-C> to abort.
Since you are interested in the diskette already
in B:, simply press:
<RETURN>
and PROFILE will go read in the configuration
table from that diskette.
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Once the table is “read-in”, PROFILE will tell
you the system configuration for which it is set
Up:
A: Apple Disk—][, Slow seek.
*
*
*
P:+ Slow seek.
*
The three vertical dots are supposed to indicate
that the other drives (B: through 0:) will also
be listed. After the drives are listed, PROFILE
will display the asterisk (“*”) prompt again and
wait for your next command. On your display,
drives A: through H: will all be listed as Disk—
if. This is why the enhanced CP/M is treating
all your drives like Disk—][’s. We’ll fix that
little problem in a bit.
The reason why I: through P: do not show a drive
type is because the Apple II CP/M does not
support those drives through the CP/M operating
system. The reason why I: through P: are listed
at all is explained in a later section which
goes further into the enhanced CP/M system and
its utilities. The plus sign (“+”) will appear
after each drive letter which cannot be currently accessed on the system because there is no
controller card for it.
The last part of each line is the seek speed at
which the drive is defined to seek All Disk ][
drives can only seek at the slow (standard Ap-
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ple) rate, so that is all that should be listed
for now.
To change the setting for drive A: within that
system sitting out on the diskette in drive B:,
type (without <RETURN>):
B:=A:
What you’ve told PROFILE so far is that you are
interested in updating the CP/M system in drive
B: (“B:=”), and the change you wish to make is
to drive A: (“A:”). However, you’ve yet to
specify the change to be made. Remember that
drive type number you used back in FORMAT and
PROFILE? It’s time to type that again.
Example: If drive A: is going to be (in your
finished system) an Elite Two (in which case
drive B: should be an Elite Two right now), you
would want to type:
B:=A:2
If drive A: is going to be an Elite One, type:
B:=A:1
and last, but certainly not least (by about
500,000 bytes of storage), the Elite Three would
be:
B:=A:3
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Once you’ve entered the drive type number,
press:
<RETURN>
and PROFILE will respond with (again):
Insert a system disk in B:
<RETURN> to continue/retry;
<ESC> or <CTRL -C> to abort.
Given that you entered the command correctly (of
course you didl), press:
<RETURN>
and PROFILE should mutter something like:
Was A: Apple Disk-][, Slow seek.
and then:
Now A: RANA Elite One, Medium seek.
or:
Now A: RANA Elite two, Fast seek.
or:
Now A: RANA Elite Three, Fast seek.
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and always:
Ready to update B:.
<RETURN> to continue/retry;
<ESC> or <CTRL-C> to abort.
The “Now" message you get will match the drive
type you specified. To update the CP/M system
on drive B:, type:
and PROFILE will write out the new configuration.
Now you can turn your Apple off (don’t worry
about still being in PROFILE) and rearrange the
drives into your final configuration. When you
have everything set, reboot the system (just
like you did at the beginning of this whole
process) using the diskette which is currently
in drive B:.
Once you have the system rebooted, the last
thing you will need to do in completing your
higher capacity system diskette (the one you
just booted). To do this, you’ll need to copy
the CP/M distribution files (from Microsoft and
Rana) onto the higher capacity diskette. To do
this, insert the first enhanced CP/M master
diskette you made into drive B: and type:
B:PIP A:=B:*.*[V]<RETURN>
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