Genie & Lamp Feb97 4/20

[norman.dodge@techall.wa.com]

Hello News!

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Ed Lundberg
                     (EDMUNDL, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:24/M645;1)

>>>>>    Steve,
"""""
>I don't think that's true:(  There is an "Apple II 3.5" Disk Controller
>Card" that is used for "non-SuperDrive" 3.5" disk drives.

Yes, and it only supports the Unidisk 3.5. The card and manual I
described \

is
the SuperDrive controller card. I hav an AE HD 3.5 on it and can read
AOL \

disks.
;) And erase them, and use them as ProDos 1.44M disks.
 --
Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech
cknoblo@delphi.com
cknoblo@novia.net
                    (C.KNOBLOCK, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:25/M645;1)

>>>>>   I have the Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller Card and it supports the HD
"""""   drive.

On Page 2 of the manual it says:

The disk controller card works with these floppy disk drives:

- Apple SuperDrive
- Apple 3.5 Drive
- Apple II UniDisk 3.5

So there you have it.  I bought this card from Shreve systems 6 weeks
ago and they have since sold out.

JB
                     (J.COLE63, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:26/M645;1)

>>>>>   There was no name change or model number change when the Apple II
"""""   3.5 Disk Controller Card went from supporting only the 800k GCR
\

format
to supporting both the 1.4 meg MFM and 800k GCR formats.  This was \

documented in
A2 Central.

Ryan
http://www.keystroke.net/~rsuenaga
"There's no shortage of windmills to tilt at."--Logan
ANSITerm and CoPilot v2.55
                      (A2LAMP, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:27/M645;1)

<<<<<   I'm looking for comments on my game plan.  I plan to connect an
"""""   Apple SuperDrive to my GS.  While using Netscape on my PC, I'd
\

like to
be able to download something (say a Richard Bennett driver), remove the
\

floppy
from the PC, insert in the SuperDrive, and install the driver on the GS.
 Is this doable?  How will the stuff be packed and which machine will I
do the unpacking?  Any comments will be appreciated from the remaining
audience.

Dave Stewart
Delivered by:
Spectrum 2.1, and CoPilot v2.55
                    (D.STEWART2, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:33/M645;1)

>>>>>   > Is this doable?
"""""
Yep.

> How will the stuff be packed and which machine will I do the unpacking?

Usually, Apple II stuff is packed in a NuFX format, with or without a \

Binary II
wrapper.

If you're grabbing stuff off of the 'net, it is sometimes also
Binscii'd, Binhex'd, or UUencoded (or otherwise textually encoded).  A
number of \

Apple II
programs can handle some or all of these formats, including GSCII+, \

Speckie 2.1,
and Binscii.

And you ought to do the unpacking on a IIgs.

Ryan
http://www.keystroke.net/~rsuenaga
"There's no shortage of windmills to tilt at."--Logan
ANSITerm and CoPilot v2.55
                      (A2LAMP, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:35/M645;1)


PRODOS 8 SLOT SWITCHING AND LASER BACKUPS   Is there a way to make slot
7 """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   on an IIe be remapped as
slot \

5?  I
have an unusual need to be able to switch it back and forth without
having \

to
move the board in the slot.

Thanks in advance.


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   ..:... Hans
                     (H.HAUMANN, CAT9, TOP23, MSG:2/M645;1)

>>>>>   Hans:
"""""
I am not certain, but I _think_ a strategic poke to the ProDOS device
driver table at $BF10+ _might_ serve temporarily to remap a slot 7
device to slot \

5.