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Faulty TransWarp GS?



	Just received an interesting package in the mail today, an
Applied Engineering TransWarp GS accelerator! I was a bit surprised,
seeing as I was supposed to be getting an 8-bit (donated) TransWarp for 
one of my Apple //e's, though nevertheless, I'm still quite satisified! :-) 
I suppose it's original owner swapped it for a TWGS at some point, the
manual is for the 8-bit AE TransWarp.

	Now then, here's the problem. When I went about plugging in the
TWGS card, I noticed a pin was missing from the ribbon cable (pin #1).
Installing it with the missing pin seemed to work at first, but loading most
software would cause the GS to lock up (apparently pin #1 controls some sort 
of interrupt and is essential for operation). I then cut some twist-tie 
wire and hacked up a replacement pin. This works, but I'm can't be 100%
certain. GS/OS will boot now, but ProTERM 3.1 *ALWAYS* crashes as soon as
the title screen comes up. It tells me "ProDOS Error $40", "An error 
occured accessing: /PT3xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxPT3.CODE1". This is displayed as an 
inversed messed which contains mousetext and other random characters.
I have tried my original backup copy and it too lockups in the same way.
Booting the same copies on my ROM 3 does nothing of the sort, so it's either
a hardware or software problem.

The TransWarp is a 6 Mhz 1989 revision. It has a small daugtherboard with 
(I think) 8k of SRAM cache and ROM v1.4x. The actual TWGS version is 8H. 
I have it installed in a stock 1.25mb ROM 01 system. Is the problem the 
replacement pin I've rigged up? Perhaps a software conflict or something I 
don't know of with the TWGS? All the built-in self-tests for in the TWGS
CDA passed okay...  Can anyone help me?

Mitchell Spector
sb_spec@pavo.concordia.ca / spector@vax2.concordia.ca