Re: Help //c -> IIgs -> mac disk transfer

["Cyril Lambin" <lambin@cohprog.com>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
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>
> You just need to boot
> to Finder and for that, System 6.0.1 (bare bones install) can boot to
> just the Finder in 1.25MB of memory.

Okay... thanks for the info.

> Too bad the FTA is still not around.  They were a killer group
> of demo programmers for the IIGS.  If you can find the disks,
> the demos will knock your socks off.  They resemble Amiga
> demos.  Both the IIGS and the Amiga had a large demo scene.
> Was it that way with the Atari ST too?

Yup. The Amiga and ST scene were as large but the aims were different: the
ST was faster and has a lot of hardware limitations (no fullscreen, no
digital sound, only 16 colors, etc) whereas the Amiga was slower but had a
lot of dedicated processors. I made some demos for the Atari ST(E) myself
and it was a great challenge to make demos. For example, to make fullscreen,
you had to synchronize with the screen beam to be able to use a hidden bug
in the video processor...

>  The IIGS had a lot to show
> off.  32-channel Ensoniq wavetable synthesis chip, custom
> graphics chip with many color modes (3200 color, 256 multi-palette,
> fill mode, etc.), and a disk port that demo programmers loved to
> hack.

As far as I can remember, I wanted to get an Apple computer during years
because they were state-of-the-art machines. But they were (and they still
are) too expensive.

> Keyboard may have died with the LC.  Otherwise, your
> IIGS may have a bad ADB chip.

I don't really know, I had to try with another ADB keyboard. Maybe this is
because my LC's keyboard was not an Apple one (MacAlly), but it seems
strange to me.

> You are welcome.  Good luck!  By the way, they made a Finder
> for the IIc too, but you really need at least a 3.5" drive to use it
> (the files do not fit on a single 5.25" disk).

The 3.5" drive doesn't work on the IIc, I guess it's that Unidisk problem
(if I've correctly understood, IIc handles Unidisks only). I don't think
I'll ever be able to get one in France. Actually I never heard of it before
I learned that the IIc+ exists (it was never released in France).

Cyril.