On 9/13/2012 11:08 PM, Kevin wrote:
On Thursday, September 13, 2012 7:33:36 PM UTC-5, bpitz wrote:So, now I can have a 32 MB "hard" drive on my old IIe? With all those great exomized games and single-load programs? All my old Appleworks files in one place, also on that same HD image? And, all my other disks imaged to ProDOS served through Dos 3.3 Launcher? Now, that is simply too great for words, AND it will save the wear on my old 30-year old Duodisks drive!
Well, maybe. It takes room in the standard memory map, and that causes all sorts of trouble for programs that expect to have it all to themselves.
But, I ask for some sage advice. Will I still need to spend *hundreds* of dollards to acquire a super serial card? At today's inflated Ebay prices, what is my cheapest option to get the Virtual serial drive working at 115k baud on my IIe? Is there a cheap generic serial card which will work? What will I have to pay for it, in the ball park?
Tony has some for sale at $20: http://16sector.com/shop/a2cards/apple-super-serial-card/You may want to contact him first to see if he's caught up on other orders first, though.
keep in mind its not a perfect solution and not everything will work, is it worth spending a pile of money? I dont know, is it exciting, yes.
Yeah, I'd have a hard time advocating spending money just to toy with this. But you really should consider a comms device of some sort regardless - they open up a lot of possibilities.