and i've got an MS-DOS 5 boot disk. it says there is BASIC on it as well, so i'll give that a try

hmm, must still be booting. this is just regular ol' ProDOS, not MS-DOS.

oh here it goes. it just took a while to find the MS-DOS disk, i guess. time to try out BASIC.

i actually like this BASIC a bit better, see how the text is 80 columns? there's also a nice menu bar at the bottom. well, it would be nice if the Apple IIe had function keys.