Re: Apple IIgs Gaming Questions

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Tempest <tempest@atariprotos.com> wrote:
> First of all, can I use a Unidisk card and two Unidisk drives?
> 
> So I put the Unidsik controller card into slot 6, and hook the two
> Unidisk drives to it while the two 3.5 drives stay hooked up to the
> smart port.  Then I go into the control panel and set something from
> Disk Port to Your Card.  Where exactly is this in control panel?

"Slots".

> After this I can boot from 5.25" drives using my original disk card and
> from the 3.5" drives if nothing is present in the 5.25's?

No.  Slot-scanning during boot only works with the smartport firmware.
The actual Disk ][ controller firmware doesn't know how to give up.

So you PR#6 to boot a 5.25" disk, or PR#5 to boot a 3.5" disk.  If you
want the computer to prefer one when you reset it, you can set the
preferred boot slot in the same "slots" section of the control panel.

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