Re: What's a Titan Neptune card do?

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Andrew Brenner wrote:

>
>
> 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).

What I meant was you'll be able to access 128k and use 128k with a variety of ProDOS
applications. However technically if the Neptune card is full then you actually have
256k,
64k on the motherboard and 192k on the card.  However since it's method of accessing
that
RAM is not the standard, you'll need special software to access anything over 128k..

> 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.

You can't use most cards in slot 3 but there are a few that will work there. I could be

wrong but I think your Titan accelerator should work in slot 3.

Something else just to me, is your IIe an enhanced //e?  Does the Titan Accelerator
have a 65C02 or a 6502 on it. I haven't seen a lot of Titan Accelerator IIe but they
all had 6502 processors in them. In a situation like that you wouldn't be able to use
the accelerator with some software. However you could easily upgrade the card if
need be though.

> 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
> :-)

You're doubly fortunate in that around here I haven't seen a IIe in a thrift store in a
couple
of years. It's pretty rare to even see a IIgs nowadays. It's been even longer since
I've seen
a Viv-20.

Wayne