Re: Questions about the Transporter IIgs Card

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

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

>Supertimer wrote:
>> 
>> "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.
>
>Hmm, I do have the original software, so this is probably unnecessary, right?

Probably not, unless you require a bootable hard disk
image already set up or the software you have is not
the most recent.

>> 
>> >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.
>
>Interesting.  ANy idea where to get the SIPPS it uses for memory?

http://www.allelec.com/ Alltech Electronics

>> 
>> >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!  ;-)
>
>Well, hey, if Apple saw fit to put what the card WAS on the card, I would call
>it that! :-)

Good point.

>> 
>> 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.
>
>Yap, I finally, got it to work last night.  I guess it does not want to work
>with just 800k drives.  I scavenged a superdrive out of a Mac Classic and put
>it in a spare drive case I had (well, okay, I had to take the drive out) and
>it works like a charm!  It will only do two drives, though, eh?  I have three
>in the chain but no dice.  Also, can I put the 5.25" on the standard disk port
>and still run it or should I set up another IIgs for that (Heh, I have a few
>spares with monitors now.....)

I'm not certain how many drives it will take, but I'd put the SuperDrives
and the Apple 3.5 drives on the SuperDrive controller's chain and I'd
put the card into slot 5.  This will let you set slot 6 to "Disk Port" and
let you run the 5.25" drives on the GS' drive port.  The SuperDrive
controller cannot run 5.25" drives.