Re: SSC and a GS

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

pilgrimer@my-deja.com wrote:

>Question:
>  With a SSC in slot 2...and slot 2 set to "your card" in control panel,
>can a GS in effect use 2 serial controllers on a single slot/port?  I
>know I can mount a Focus drive in slot 4 and STILL use the mouse (at
>least, still use it in GS specific SW, I haven't tried MouseWrite or the
>like) by simply specifying Your Card for 4.   Just curious if this
>situation is similar in other slots/card to port combos.... Unidisk 3.5
>card in 5, I/O in 6, + drives on the floppy port?....
>Grappler in 1 + printer on 1?

You can do this with slot 2 (use a card and keep the modem
port) but it will not work with any other slot except slot 4 on
a ROM 3 (which you have).

The exception is if you have a card that does not require the
control panel be set to your card.  IIGS specific cards such
as the Visionary/Vision Plus Enhanced frame grabber, IIGS
sound cards, and accelerator cards do not require control
panel to be set to 'Your Card' can work in slot 5/slot 6 with
no effect on your drives.

In this case, I suggest you put the Grappler into slot 2 and
put your modem on the printer port.

Theoretically, you should be able to use Printer and the
Grappler in slot 1, but I do not know of any software that can
currently support this.  The modem port is different not due
to any hardware differences but because software support
of using both slot 2 and the serial port is widely implemented.