Re: PC Transporter fun

["Charlie" <charlied@NOSPAMbboard.com>]

"Bart" <me2@nowhere.org> wrote in message
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> Here is a short epistle on some of my latest tinkerings...
>
> A PC Transporter on a IIGS.  An interesting combination. In this case a
> IIGS-IIe upgrade system, and, this is the way to go for running a PCT  The
IIe
> case is longer and better accomodates the card.  Such a beast running
Windows
> 3.0 is a challenge.  1st is the problem of compatability with hardware and
> software,  2nd is the sheer mechanics of Getting it there!
>
> One major consideration is video drivers.  What video setting do you use
with
> an Analog Apple RGB
> monitor inthe 15MHz refresh range talking via the included PCT color
switch
> board?  {{BTW, install tip for the color switch on a IIe style case:
Install
> it in the backplane slot over the power supply using something flat and
> nonconductive as an insulator under it (I pryed the metal off a 3.5 floppy
and
> used that.}}
>
> To get an EGA capable Windows ver 3.0 setup over to my PC Transporter
equipped
> Apple IIgs I had to do some rather bizzare shuffles:
>
> First,  I do not have any 386 or 486 class machines that have 1.2meg 5.25
> drives installed. And you need a 1.2 meg drive  to install Win 3.0; the 5
> install disks are in that size.  I guess you could copy them to a 1.44 and
use
> a Supredrive and Superdrive card, but I am fresh out of those, or use the
Blue
> Disk(?) from Joachim Lange (on my wish list too) but these options are not
> currently avaialable  So...
>  I had to boot a PII 333 (my one remaining machine with a 1.2 meg 5.25
drive)
> into Comand Prompt and install Win 3.0  there. Tried it too for grins.
man oh
> man!  Windows SCREAMS on a PII!)  I then moved the directory to a 486 that
has
> DOS 6.0 and Win for Workgroups  3.11 (16 bit TCP/IP installed) via TCP/IP.
> This machine does not have an EGA monitor so I needed to move it on.  I
used
> Novell IPX to move the directory to a 386 with an EGA monitor.  This machi
ne
> does NOT have a 1.2meg 5.25 floppy drive so... to get the correct drivers
> I..ran SETUP.  It asked for  disks 1 -3 of the setup so I mounted floppy
on
> Pentium and copied needed files from PII -> 486 -> 386 as it asked for
them.
> Had to do this as  PII-> is a TCP link, 486-> 386 is IPX. Then rebooted
(386)
> and had it.  EGA mode Windows 3.0 worked.
>
> Zipped the resulant directory, created a zip self extractor, and copied it
to
> my main PIII which runs COPSTALK (Appletalk compatable protocol)  and
passed
> across to a Mac.
> Then I used the GS to snarf the zip via regular Appletalk from the target
Mac.
> Last I used the PCT Transfer progy to get it into the DOS "Disk".  From
> here... well all that shuffling left the file (Zip self extractor) damaged
so
> I copied PKZ204g.exe over to the PCT via the TranDrive 360k (it is a 220k
> file) and installed pkzip on the Apple.   I then ran PKZIPFIX on the file,
> then unzipped it.
> It is now in the process of writing the files one at a time (you don't
KNOW
> the difference tween a modern box and a old 8088 till you watch one run a
> decompression; MAN that's sloow!  Ah HA! GDI.EXE doesn't pass crc so,
copied
> another to a 360k ..  two more files, similar problem.  Ok. That is done,
now
> the acid test.  Humm reboot the PCT to be sure and..
> A Windows logo on my Apple IIgs in a IIe Case.
>
>  Poor poor computer.  How could a cruel human do that to you!  Well it
boots
> and sees my Apple mouse as a Microsoft one.  Recognizes the IIe keyboard
AND
> the old style 96 key Zeinth plugged in too.  I just launched Solitare.
humm
> red queen on the black... uh well that's it ;)
> -Bart
>
>

I ran Windows 3.0 on my Apple IIgs using the PC Transporter about 7 years
ago.  It worked alright but was very slow and used CGA because my PC
Transporter did not support EGA.  By the way I didn't have to go through all
the steps you did to get Win 3.0 onto the PCT.  Windows 3.0 also came on
3.5" 720Kbyte disks (7 of them I think).  I just put them in my Apple 3.5"
drive which was connected to my PCT and installed it.

Charlie