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Re: AlphaSyntauri

Simon D. Williams wrote:

On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, RichardK wrote:



Simon D. Williams wrote:




My attempt to install in a IIe resulted in me hot-pluggig all three cards
_and_ pulling pulling the ribbon cable right out of one of the Mountain
cards... remarkably it all survived, but I didn't notice the disconnected
cable until I'd given up on the IIe and transferred everything back to my
][+ -- where it will now stay for the rest of its life.
Wow, that's a tough setup. Any reason it didn't stay in the //e? I can't think of any reason for it not to work in an unenhanced //e, tbh. 


The only thing I've heard is that it will work with "early" IIes, which
I've always taken to mean "unenhanced"... My main impetus for installing it in the IIe was to run the software from 
a CFFA... I've since moved my CFFA to the ][+ and found out that the
Syntauri software has issues with DOS.Master, so I really don't have any
reason to tempt fate again ;-)


Except for the possibility that some of its screens are intolerant of
mousetext, there should be no reason why it wouldn't work with an
enhanced //e, too.


On a bit of tangent: it's my considered opinion that DOS 3.3 is the real
limiting factor for the alphaSyntauri (and the DX-1). Having access to
fast mass-storage devices would greatly improve the utility of the
hardware... It's been in the back of my mind to write a better sequencer
for the DX-1, though I think ProDOSifying the Syntauri software might be a
more ambitious project.


Possibly, but I don't remember any real OS dependency except for doing
disk I/O, which is not particularly integrated into the program (just a
load/save kind of interface).

Almost everything that it does is involved with its keyboard controller
and the Mountain Music System, which uses DMA extensively, but is not
really integrated with any OS software.

-michael

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