Re: PC Transporter

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SUTTON GARY E <gesutton@olympic.ctc.edu> wrote:
>Hihi!
>
>I've been trying to get a PC Transporter to work on my GS, with only
>limited success.
>Could someone here possibly help?
>
>I've got two 800k 3.5" Apple drives, one of them connected to the PCT
>card.  When I run the PC Transporter software, I get the title screen,
>and then the system freezes up.  Hitting CTRL-Reset gets me back to
>ProDOS and when I do that, the AEPC RAMDisk is installed, but there
>doesn't seem to be anything else I can do related to the PCT.

Hmm...do you have the ColorSwitch board properly installed?  If you
do not, then you are not going to see a thing when the PCT is started
and it would appear that you have a blank screen.  The PCT would be
generating video, but without the ColorSwitch board, there would be
no way that the video would get to your monitor.  Look at your PCT
and ColorSwitch to see if the GS port is plugged into the ColorSwitch,
the PCT is plugged into the ColorSwitch, and the monitor is plugged
into the ColorSwitch.


>All I really want to use the PCT for is as a RAM Disk, and more
>importantly, to transfer files from MS-DOS to ProDOS.  Whether or not I
>can boot MS-DOS with the PCT doesn't really matter to me (although that
>would be nice.)

You have to boot MS-DOS to use the PCT to transfer files.  The file
transfer program (one of the best for this purpose) is MS-DOS based.


>And while I'm here, anyone know where I can get CP/AM 5.1?  I picked up
>a nice AE Z-80 card at Goodwill a while back (it was their top of the
>line Z-80 card that can use the GS's expanded memory).  However, it did
>not come with any of the software.

Check ftp://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/ where they seem to be accumulating
some software for various products.

-Scott G.