Re: ROM 03 IIGS --- compatibility questions

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <50sk63$1i2@lynx.unm.edu>,
stephen e buggie <buggie@enzu.unm.edu> wrote:
>I just got a ROM 03 IIGS!
>
>GHreat graphics, but these problems:
>
>1) It wont recognize the MOUSE on 8-bit mouse-controlled software like
>coy II plus v.9.1., or Bankl Street Writer Plus.   (Could I use a IIe
>mouse card and mouse in slot 4???)

Betcha the mouse port is switched out of slot 4. As has been discussed here
lately, native software can use the mouse even if it's switched out on a ROM 3.
I have two ROM 3s and the mouse works in 8 bit software.

>2) I use two Disk II drives with Disk II interface card in Slot 6.
>But the Rom 03 will read, not write, to these drives.
>
>(It works normally with Platinim 5.25 daisy-chained after the 3.5 drives
>from Smartport).

Dunno, never tried that myself

>Also, can anyone send me a list of other known incompatibilities 
>for IIgs Rom 03?

Lessee, some crappily written old software won't run, you can't set the
RAM disk size to the largest selectable amount shown but you can set it to 32K 
less, and you can't have a RAM disk at all with an 8 mb memory card installed
without running system 6.0.1. That's about all I know of. You pick up lots of
new capabilities, like not having to give up slot 7 for appletalk, being
able to put a VOC in any slot, and lots more.
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Randy Shackelford                                 US Air Force officer
shack@frii.com                                    and Apple aficionado