Re: What's a Titan Neptune card do?

["Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net>]

I think the Neptune is compatible with a normal 80 column card, so ProDOS
can use the first 64k on the card as its /RAM volume. You would need special
software to use the rest.

Simon.


"Andrew Brenner" <brenner@earthling.net> wrote in message
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> > No, you need either an 80 column card in the Auxiliary slot or one of
the ones
> > that go in a regular slot.
>
> I guess it's a good thing I have the Neptune card then :-)
>
> > The 128k would be the 64k on the motherboard plus 64k on the card.
ProDOS
> > won't recognize any of the extra memory on the card. The Neptune card
was a
> > pretty early IIe card. I think the card first came out before ProDOS
did.
>
> What exactly do you mean that ProDOS won't recognize the extra memory?
Isn' t it
> ProDOS that gives you the one-key disk operation?  I was sure that's where
I found
> the utility to list the ][e's memory and slot info which shows it at 128K.
Or can
> it detect it but just not actually utilize it? (I am still new to this but
I was
> pretty sure it was ProDOS).
>
> > > I realized last night that I have all the original Titan floppies. I
also
> > > found in one of the software boxes an Accelerator IIe card once again
by
> > > titan.  I have all the software for it as well. I'm wondering why it
isn't
> > > connected though.
> >
> > The Accelerator IIe is supposed to be a hair slower than the TransWarp
> > accelerator because it has to slow down to access ROM but I'd expect
you'd rarely
> > be able to
> > see a difference. That's a good score, accelerators are a bit hard to
find. Most
> > of the time you shouldn't need to use the software that came with it but
it's nice
> > to
> > have. Very likely they removed it if they were playing a lot of games.
Most games
> > are a
> > bit too challenging at three and a half times normal speed. While you
can disable
> > the accelerator at startup, it's sometimes easier to just pull it.
> >
> >     Wayne
>
> As a thrift store find I do consider myself very lucky to find the
accelerator.
> Especially when I expected to open the box to find a Tempest clone (it was
a box for
> "tubeway"). I think your reasoning is right; the majority of one of the
two disk
> boxes is nothing but games.  Which slot does the accelerator card go in?
I
> currently have the 'aux' port filled (with the neptune), slot 1 has the
Super Serial
> Card in it, and slot 6 has the I/O controller for my Duodisk.  I know the
'never use
> slot 3 when using auxillary cards' rule, but which of the other slots
should I use.
>
> As many times as I've passed up Apple ][e's at thrift stores I think I
picked a good
> one to finally buy.  Besides I ended up buying the whole kit and kaboodle
(CPU w/
> Kensington system saver, monitor ][, duodisk, imagewriter, plus software)
for around
> $10. What's really laughable is the same day I went ahead and bought a
Commodore
> Vic-20. It gives me a little perspective as to how amazing the ][e was for
it's time
> (even compared to C64s). Of course then again I also bought a Pentium 100
machine in
> my thrift store haul saturday. It's nice to know I have a ][e that was
well loved
> :-)
>
> --andrew--
>