Re: Apple //e in Mac LC?

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

"Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

>    Someone posted the message who they claim that they can read colored 
>80-column using DHGR mode.  I do not mean to discuss 16 colors in the 
>foreground and background text for Apple IIgs.  I discuss DHGR mode which it 
>switches from color to monochrome and from monochrone to color while you 
>desire to read 80-column text.  It is like 3 or 4 colors in 7 pixels per 
>80-column text when it is in color, but it is all one color as white in 7 
>pixels per 80-column text when it is in monochrome.  Do you know what I 
>mean?

    Not exactly, but I assume you're talking about the color burst signal,
which is automatically shut-off when text is displayed on a composite
screen?

    The PDS Apple IIe Card always displays text in monochrome with
no color artifacting (well, simulated artificating that is), much like an
Apple IIgs with RGB monitor in the way it behaves.

    It's also similar in that if run a program like MouseDesk, MultiScribe 
or MouseCalc, you have to manually go into the Control Panel and 
switch it to "monochrome". Yes, the IIe Card has its own unique 
Control Panel, invoked by Apple-Control-Esc (it is mouse controlled
and displayed within the Finder, but all Mac function is locked out).

Here's what it actually looks like:  
http://apple2history.org/images/lc2e_control.gif
   
>    Please suggest what I need to buy Macintosh LC with Apple //e's card 
>including 3.5" drive and 5.25" drive.

    First you need a compatible machine, the Macintosh LC (I, II, III, 475,
520, 550, 575), Macintosh Performa (4xx, 55x, 56x, 57x), as well as the
Quadra 605 and Color Classic are the only ones which work. I would 
suggest using a 68040-based machine; I have mine in an LC 475.

    The operating system installed must be anything from System 6.0.8 
to System 7.5.5, but no higher, and 24-bit addressing must be enabled.

    When plugged in, much like the AE PC Transporter, it "borrows"
native components for the emulator's use, so in Apple IIe mode you
will have: ProDOS hardisk, clock, serial ports, mouse, 1 MB Slinky
RAM card, 2 MHz accelerator and 3.5 floppy disk.

    The only peripherals you can add are external floppy drives (either
an Apple 5.25 or UniDisk 3.5) and Apple joystick/paddles. In order to
do this you *must* have the Y-cable that attaches to the 26-pin port
on back of the card. I don't have one with my card so there is very
little I can do with it, since 99% of my 8-bit software is on 5.25 disks.

Mitchell Spector