Re: AE PC Transporter

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

> You don't need a PC keyboard.  The PCT maps PC keys to
> the ADB port.  You can either use the standard IIGS keyboard
> and use the Command and Option keys to "shift" into the
> extended keys OR you can find a cheap Macintosh Extended
> ADB keyboard and the PCT will use it (through the IIGS
> ADB port) exactly as it would a PC keyboard.
Yeah, but it's good to know just in case...What if for some reason I
wanted to stick it in a II+ or something? ;>

> For RGB, the connector is at J6.  Both the Colorswitch and CGA
> cables connect here.  The relevant pins are the 10 pins in
> the center of the connector.  These attach to a straight through
> 10 way ribbon cable and end in a DB9 connector for the CGA
> cable.  It is probably better to connect a composite video cable
> to J2 and use a IIe monitor for display.
Where does that extra pin go when it ends in the DB9? And where would one
find the connector to wire this up? Excuse me if I'm...slow, but I just
want to make sure I'm looking for the right things...wish I could find a
ColorSwitch. Hmm. I guess, perhaps about the composite except that one can
only have so much desk space...and those IIe composite monitors are so
huge. It would be so convenient to have it all go to the IIgs RGB, but
that's just wishing for a ColorSwitch I guess.

> You also don't need any disk drives for the PCT.  The software
> on ground will let you make disk images and you can install your
> PC software on these disk images after transfer via modem.
> (Think about what you do with Bernie II, only reverse it....
> now the disk images are used on the IIGS and you need to
> get the PC software for the emulated PC onto the IIGS).
Well, fortunately I do have a PC TransDrive dual 5.25, so I don't have to
mess with images too much. In a perfect world, though, I will find a nice
big HD and put everything on it, and just run off of images. Now, to find
that math coprocessor...