CFFA3000 and Apple III

Great, thanks. I DL'd the book and will read through it (your second link). The III operates somewhat differently than I expected. Sounds like my first step is to get SOS on a floppy so I can test the III and make sure there are no disk drive issues before proceeding to the CFFA. Based on my experience with the CFFA and the Apple II, I was thinking it was going to be a bit more straightforward. Thanks for the info. Win --- Unlike the II, which is relatively easy to configure to boot to any (bootable) storage device in nearly any slot, the Apple III tries to boot only from the internal floppy drive, and as Eric pointed out, you'd have to roll your own ROM to change that behavior. The CFFA3000 works nicely in the III, but you lose the Drive ][ emulation capability and you can't boot directly to it. In the Apple III, everything is seen as a device and requires a driver that SOS loads as it boots in order to be accessible to the system during operation. You can't (easily) boot directly to the CFFA because SOS requires a driver to be able to recognize it. Fortunately, SOS is close enough to ProDOS that you can use the CFFA in an Apple II to create floppies from the images you downloaded. I'd suggest reading this PDF for more on how the III works: http;//apple2scans.net/scans/manuals/3rd.party/OMHGYA3.pdf It's the Osborne McGraw Hill Guide To Your Apply III. Pay special attention to Chapters 3 and 4. LMK if you have any questions about all this. - Mike