Re: Trackstar

["Richard A. Cini, Jr." <rcini@msn.com>]

Check out my Web site:

    http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/trackstar.htm

Rich

Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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"Alias Q, Undercover" <me2@nowhere.org> wrote in message
news:uLtm7.409$EM4.210739@news.uswest.net...
> Yeah I am still tinkering with my Trackstar and I found a need and am
issuing
> a call among the only people on Planet Earth who would know the answer to
this
> one:
> Does anyone out there have a copy of  the "E"  software for the Trackstar?
> Not the 128, and not the 128+,  but the  actual "E" stuff.
>  What is the difference?  Well it seems the 128 and the 128+ are basically
> reverse-engineered (Copywrite 1983-84 Language Arts Inc.) Apple ][+
systems
> with a extra 64k.
>  The "E" is a IIe...sort of...
> What I really need is the tsutilit.com program from the "e" set.  The
> difference here is the 128+ flavor of this setup routine only allows the
PC's
> 360k drive to be set-up as a "trackstore" disk, NOT as a standard PrDOS
> capable drive.  Yes I do have the funny add-on board that allows this (and
> finding it was whoa! another story!)
> I am not clear from the documentation if the 360k somehow becomes a 140k
Apple
> drive or, if it stays a 360 and is formatable in ProDOS (like the
transdrive
> on a PC Transporter)  and THAT is what I wanna find out.  no no don't tell
me!
>  I am a stuborn cuss!  I want the program so I can break it m'self!
>
> oh and another thing:  Anyone ever tried hooking a 2nd Apple Drive (or a
> Duodisk or the like) to a Trackstar?
> thanks
> -Bart
>
> --
> -Bart Prine
> sometimes to be fond as
remove@this.pilgrimer@syndicomm.com.and@remove.this
> Spam....public square, long walk, short rope... any takers?
>