Re: Questions about the Transporter IIgs Card

["Marlin Bates, IV" <mbates4@gte.net>]

Supertimer wrote:
> 
> "Marlin Bates, IV" <mbates4@gte.net> wrote:
> 
> >I just bought a Transporter card and stuff for the IIgs and am wondering if
> >there is a repository of information about it like connecting stuff and
> >compatibility with other cards.
> 
> PC Transporter is an IBM XT on a card for the IIGS.  It is an
> emulator.  You can find the software it needs and a bootable
> disk image from the ground ftp server.

Hmm, I do have the original software, so this is probably unnecessary, right?

> 
> >I do have a manual, but would like as much info as possible.
> 
> It acts like a Turbo XT, which does everything slower than
> an unaccelerated GS.  It has 640k of memory in XT mode
> and acts as a 768k RAM disk in Apple mode.

Interesting.  ANy idea where to get the SIPPS it uses for memory?

> 
> >AM also looking for info on the Apple "Mustang II" card which allows 1.44
> >floppy drives on the IIgs.
> 
> You sure have a strange way of identifying your cards!  ;-)

Well, hey, if Apple saw fit to put what the card WAS on the card, I would call
it that! :-)

> 
> That's the Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller, also called the SuperDrive
> card.  Not much to say about it except that you plug in one
> of them Macintosh external SuperDrives and gain 1.44MB ability
> as well as MS-DOS read/write ability from the IIGS.  Use it
> with System 6.0.1 and an external SuperDrive (or equivalent from
> AMR or Applied Engineering) and it works transparently.

Yap, I finally, got it to work last night.  I guess it does not want to work
with just 800k drives.  I scavenged a superdrive out of a Mac Classic and put
it in a spare drive case I had (well, okay, I had to take the drive out) and
it works like a charm!  It will only do two drives, though, eh?  I have three
in the chain but no dice.  Also, can I put the 5.25" on the standard disk port
and still run it or should I set up another IIgs for that (Heh, I have a few
spares with monitors now.....)

-Marlin