SuperDrive

[schefflr@news.msus.edu (Bill Scheffler)]

	I just purchased an Apple 3.5" FDHD drive and card used.  My 
impression...wow!  It is sooooooo nice to be able to use high density 
disks.  It works _great_ with the PC Transporter in my system (no more 
flaky 720k disks with that AppleDisk 3.5", or dealing with that ancient 
360k Transdrive!  Backups and general data storage are excellent too.

	However, I have a few questions for those who've had experience 
with them.  It "appears" that some old games, such as World Games, ect. 
that use copy protection of some kind will not run on this drive.  I 
assume using Copy II+ to make unprotected copies won't work either (with 
the drive I mean).  The solution is easy enough, just hook an 800k up to 
the smart port and change slot settings (I HAD to put the card in Slot 
5!).  I've only got like one slot left... :(
	Oh, and my last question is, has anyone else gotten 
Renassianse(sp?) to work with this drive?  It refuses to bring it up on 
the OpenFile list.  Deliverance works fine.  Ren is at 1.04 I believe.  
Is there a newer version from Vitesse?  In Incider/A+, they had a rumor 
long ago that Vitesse was planning an upgrade that would merge 
Deliverance and Renassiance into one product...any truth to that?

	I'd sure love to see a writtable MS-DOS FST...(hint...hint).  
Although, there may be a necessity for a text translator as I don't like 
it when those little question marks show up in front of each line in EGOed!

	Apple did a great diservice to the Apple II community when they 
made so few of these drives and cards.  Every Apple II (slotted one that 
is) should have one of these in their systems.  Plus, there's no more 
worrying about when they'll stop making double-density...I have like 200 
hundred some blank double density disks I no longer use... :)


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Bill Scheffler			 | Apple II Forever, IBM Never!
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