{"id":306,"date":"2013-07-14T16:04:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T21:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/?p=306"},"modified":"2023-09-10T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T16:20:02","slug":"a2cloud-use-virtual-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/a2cloud-use-virtual-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"8. Use virtual drives!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, almost there. Fire up your A2CLOUD floppy, and\u00a0at the welcome screen, type V. (If you are at an Applesoft prompt, you can instead type -VSDRIVE<\/code>.)<\/p>\n

Once you’ve done this, you can access your blank virtual disk on slot 2 drive 1, and the 800K version of the A2CLOUD disk on slot 2 drive 2. Check it out by typing CAT,S2,D2<\/code>. After specifying the slot and drive, they will stick for subsequent ProDOS commands<\/a>\u00a0(that’s a quick list; here’s a\u00a0full manual<\/a>). You will no longer have access to slot 6.\u00a0To regain access to slot 6, do a full reset of your Apple II and boot any ProDOS disk as usual.<\/p>\n

You can also run VSDRIVE from a ProDOS 8 program launcher (e.g. the BYE<\/code> command). Nothing will appear to happen, but your virtual drives will become available. (If you don’t see VSDRIVE when you’re not in BASIC.SYSTEM, update ADTPro by typing a2cloud-update<\/code>.)
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If you need access to both slot 6 and the virtual drives at the same time, you can, after booting, type:<\/p>\n

-VSDRIVE.LOW<\/code><\/p>\n

However, this version of the driver for the virtual disks is easily overwritten by other software, especially if you exit BASIC.SYSTEM. However, ProDOS Filer works ok, so it is included on the A2CLOUD disk if you need to transfer files from slot 6 to a virtual drive. Just type\u00a0-FILER<\/code>\u00a0to use it. Note that if you’re transferring from the A2CLOUD floppy disk to the virtual A2CLOUD disk (in S2,D2 by default), you’ll first need to rename the volume of your boot floppy to something like A2CLOUD.DISK, so Filer can tell it apart from the volume named A2CLOUD in the virtual drive.<\/p>\n

If you think Filer sucks, because it does, you can instead use ADTPro to transfer your entire 5.25″ disk to a new disk image on your Pi that you can use with VSDRIVE, or experiment with other copy programs.<\/p>\n

You can also change the virtual drives to use different images, which I’ll explain in a later post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, almost there. Fire up your A2CLOUD floppy, and\u00a0at the welcome screen, type V. (If you are at an Applesoft prompt, you can instead type -VSDRIVE.) Once you’ve done this, you can access your blank virtual disk on slot 2 drive 1, and the 800K version of the A2CLOUD disk on slot 2 drive 2. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}