Re: What's a Titan Neptune card do?

[Andrew Brenner <brenner@earthling.net>]

> No, you need either an 80 column card in the Auxiliary slot or one of the ones
> that go in a regular slot.

I guess it's a good thing I have the Neptune card then :-)

> The 128k would be the 64k on the motherboard plus 64k on the card. ProDOS
> won't recognize any of the extra memory on the card. The Neptune card was a
> pretty early IIe card. I think the card first came out before ProDOS did.

What exactly do you mean that ProDOS won't recognize the extra memory? Isn' t it
ProDOS that gives you the one-key disk operation?  I was sure that's where I found
the utility to list the ][e's memory and slot info which shows it at 128K.  Or can
it detect it but just not actually utilize it? (I am still new to this but I was
pretty sure it was ProDOS).

> > I realized last night that I have all the original Titan floppies. I also
> > found in one of the software boxes an Accelerator IIe card once again by
> > titan.  I have all the software for it as well. I'm wondering why it isn't
> > connected though.
>
> The Accelerator IIe is supposed to be a hair slower than the TransWarp
> accelerator because it has to slow down to access ROM but I'd expect you'd rarely
> be able to
> see a difference. That's a good score, accelerators are a bit hard to find. Most
> of the time you shouldn't need to use the software that came with it but it's nice
> to
> have. Very likely they removed it if they were playing a lot of games. Most games
> are a
> bit too challenging at three and a half times normal speed. While you can disable
> the accelerator at startup, it's sometimes easier to just pull it.
>
>     Wayne

As a thrift store find I do consider myself very lucky to find the accelerator.
Especially when I expected to open the box to find a Tempest clone (it was a box for
"tubeway"). I think your reasoning is right; the majority of one of the two disk
boxes is nothing but games.  Which slot does the accelerator card go in?  I
currently have the 'aux' port filled (with the neptune), slot 1 has the Super Serial
Card in it, and slot 6 has the I/O controller for my Duodisk.  I know the 'never use
slot 3 when using auxillary cards' rule, but which of the other slots should I use.

As many times as I've passed up Apple ][e's at thrift stores I think I picked a good
one to finally buy.  Besides I ended up buying the whole kit and kaboodle (CPU w/
Kensington system saver, monitor ][, duodisk, imagewriter, plus software) for around
$10. What's really laughable is the same day I went ahead and bought a Commodore
Vic-20. It gives me a little perspective as to how amazing the ][e was for it's time
(even compared to C64s). Of course then again I also bought a Pentium 100 machine in
my thrift store haul saturday. It's nice to know I have a ][e that was well loved
:-)

--andrew--