Re: Different versions of ROM 01 GS?

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labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:

>> Yes, if you don't switch to "Your Card" in the control panel,
>> the card can lie dormant in the slot and not disable the
>> firmware function.
>...
>> Basically, if you have IIGS specific cards, you can use a
>> slot and a port at the same time.  Only the older IIe style
>> cards require you to disable a port for a slot.
>
>Hmm. Well, I guess the PCT, <random IIe CPM cards> and a couple others I
>have fit in that category...

Yup.

>What about the Apple HS SCSI card?

It also requires "Your Card" to be set.

>And I'm assuming that on the cold, dark day that I finally get a
>ColorSwitch card to use with my PCT (rather than trying to wire up a CGA
>cable for an external monitor) it will be a GS-specific type card since,
>well...it is, right?

Right.  In fact, it does not even sit in a slot.  It hangs off one
of the cutouts on the back of the IIGS and connects to
and gets power from the PCT video connector.

>How about the Apple II Memory card? I mean, if it's
>just gonna be a 1mb ramdisk, I won't bother...maybe...but if I can squeeze
>another 1mb into the GS with this otherwise unused card...

It is going to become a ramdisk.  The GS can't use that
memory for IIGS programs, but I think it will use it in
IIe emulation mode for IIe programs like AppleWorks.

>> Another interesting thing: some IIGS aware programs like
>> ProTERM 3.1 let you use a port even if the corresponding
>> slot is set to "Your Card!"  For example, if you had a PC
>> Transporter in slot 2 and permanently set "Your Card" for
>> slot 2 in the control panel, you will lose the modem port right?
>> Wrong if you have ProTERM 3.1.  ProTERM 3.1 will keep
>> seeing the modem port even if the control panel is set to
>> "Your Card."  That means you can use the PCT and the
>> modem (with ProTERM) without accessing the control
>> panel to change a setting.
>
>Of course, I wouldn't be able to use the modem port within the DOS
>environment on the PC...but hey, more reason for me to get GS-native
>programs like ProTERM...someday when I have money. (ProTERM's one of the
>commercial ones, right?)

Right, ProTERM is commercial.  Interestingly, ProTERM
is not fully native.  It is a IIe program that's been skillfully
programmed so that it knows when it is in the IIGS and
uses a little extra code that's been added specifically for
the IIGS to access the modem port.  Another bit of code
for the IIGS allows ProTERM to run the modem port
at 57.6k.

I like ProTERM, but when you do get a commercial
program, it might be better to get the FULLY native one
called Spectrum.  That one now supports TCP/IP with
32 sockets, an FTP program, a web browser of sorts
(GUI based Lynx) and soon an email program.  It is safe
to say that future updates will be for Spectrum rather than
ProTERM.
 
>Oh, and _were_ there any differences, other than the plugs and the fan,
>between the two versions of the ROM 01 boards I have? I mean, it seems
>like the plugs would be earlier, but why no fan in the 'later' one? Did it
>cause any problems? (I remember the first AppleCD SC drives had a fan in
>them, and Apple issued a thing for people to go and have them
>removed...they'd just suck dust into the drive onto the disc and laser
>making it unreliable or something) Not that it's that problem, but you
>know, along those lines or something...maybe interference or...?

Apple never put a fan in the IIGS.  I suspect that the
one with the fan was user enhanced.

What color is the power supply with the fan on it?  Is
it black with the fan on the upper left hand corner
of the case?  It could be a Vulcan.  Vulcans are power
supplies with fans and hard drives in them that were
manufactured by Applied Engineering.  Applied
Ingenuity made a similar product as did Econ Technology.