Re: Virtual serial drive

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/2012 11:08 PM, Kevin wrote:
>> On Thursday, September 13, 2012 7:33:36 PM UTC-5, bpitz wrote:
>>> So, now I can have a 32 MB "hard" drive on my old IIe? With all those
>>> great exomized games and single-load programs? All my old Appleworks
>>> files in one place, also on that same HD image? And, all my other disks
>>> imaged to ProDOS served through Dos 3.3 Launcher? Now, that is simply
>>> too great for words, AND it will save the wear on my old 30-year old Duodisks drive!
> 
> Well, maybe.  It takes room in the standard memory map, and that causes
> all sorts of trouble for programs that expect to have it all to themselves.
> 
>>> But, I ask for some sage advice. Will I still need to spend *hundreds*
>>> of dollards to acquire a super serial card? At today's inflated Ebay
>>> prices, what is my cheapest option to get the Virtual serial drive
>>> working at 115k baud on my IIe? Is there a cheap generic serial card
>>> which will work? What will I have to pay for it, in the ball park?
> 
> Tony has some for sale at $20:
> http://16sector.com/shop/a2cards/apple-super-serial-card/
> You may want to contact him first to see if he's caught up on other orders first, though.

How about the idea of putting the vdisk client code into a replacement ROM
for the SSC?

If it fits, that gets it out of the RAM address space...

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon