Re: Apple IIGS memory >4 meg. options

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

glynnet@zero.cypher.com (Glynne Tolar) writes:

>What are the options for getting GS memory higher then 4 megs.  I would have
>liked to have bought CV-Tech's old card w/ the piggyback to put my current
>card in but it was discontinued because it did not make hardly any money.

Your options are:
- Buying the CV-Tech piggyback card at Charlie's AppleSeeds (their ad says
  they have four left, so hurry, you might still get one ;-)
- Finding an OctoRAM. Good luck.
- Buying one of the new CV-Tech cards. They are upgraded using 1MB*4
  DIP modules (5141000 or similar, I think), come with 4MB already
  soldered on, and you can improve by steps of 1MB. (Neat feature, IMHO,
  for the financially impaired like me :). They _claim_ to be fully DMA
  compatible over all 8MB, regardless of the device actually doing DMA.
  I've heard some foobar like "loop mode access" being tossed around,
  but I don't know what to make of it. Could someone with that card and
  an Apple SCSI DMA verify if it boots fine with 8MB on?

Soenke
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