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Apple IIe Card User Manual

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Apple IIe program names often have a period and the word "SYSTEM" after them.

Their icons look like this:

(To see full-size icons like this one, choose "by Icon" from the View menu.)

After you double-click, the IIe Startup program opens and your Apple IIe

program is launched.

The Apple IIe way

When you are in the Apple IIe environment, you start up Apple IIe programs

the same way you would on an Apple IIe:

1. If you have only one disk drive, press Command-Shift-1 to eject the IIe

Startup Disk from the built-in disk drive.

If you plan to start up the Apple IIe program from another drive, you don't

need to eject the IIe Startup Disk.

To eject a disk from a second built-in floppy disk drive, press

Command-Shift-2.

2. Insert the disk containing the Apple IIe program you want to run into a

disk drive.

If a particular slot has already been designated as the startup slot in the

Slot Configuration panel, insert the disk into a drive controlled through

that slot.

3. Press Command-Control-Reset.

Pressing Command-Control-Reset resets the Apple IIe Card and restarts the IIe

Startup program. IIe Startup uses the startup setting in the Slot

Configuration panel to locate a program disk. If a specific slot is

designated as the startup slot, IIe Startup goes directly to that slot. If

the startup option is set to Scan, the program scans the slots in descending

order from 7 to 1. The first startup disk it encounters is loaded into the

computer's main memory, and you see the opening display for the program

you're running.

If IIe Startup encounters a non-startup disk in the startup drive, you see

the message "Unable to Boot from startup slot." The program enters the BASIC

programming environment and presents a BASIC prompt.

If IIe Startup finds no startup disk in any drive, it enters the BASIC

programming environment and presents a BASIC prompt.

From the BASIC programming environment, you can start up a program disk by

typing a BASIC instruction that directs IIe Startup to the disk drive you

indicate.

4. Type pr# followed by the number of the slot to which the startup drive is

assigned.

The most typical instructions are pr#5 for 3.5-inch disk drives and pr#6 for

5.25-inch disk drives.