Re: Questions about the Transporter IIgs Card

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"Marlin Bates, IV" <mbates4@gte.net> wrote:

>I just bought a Transporter card and stuff for the IIgs and am wondering if
>there is a repository of information about it like connecting stuff and
>compatibility with other cards.

PC Transporter is an IBM XT on a card for the IIGS.  It is an
emulator.  You can find the software it needs and a bootable
disk image from the ground ftp server.

>I do have a manual, but would like as much info as possible.

It acts like a Turbo XT, which does everything slower than
an unaccelerated GS.  It has 640k of memory in XT mode
and acts as a 768k RAM disk in Apple mode.

>AM also looking for info on the Apple "Mustang II" card which allows 1.44
>floppy drives on the IIgs.

You sure have a strange way of identifying your cards!  ;-)

That's the Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller, also called the SuperDrive
card.  Not much to say about it except that you plug in one
of them Macintosh external SuperDrives and gain 1.44MB ability
as well as MS-DOS read/write ability from the IIGS.  Use it
with System 6.0.1 and an external SuperDrive (or equivalent from
AMR or Applied Engineering) and it works transparently.