Re: Prosel8/AppleTalk ???

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Simon Williams <see_sig_for_valid_email@no.spam> wrote:

> Steven N. Hirsch <shirsch@adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
> > > I'm wondering if anyone can help me here...
> > > I've got my IIgs (ROM 1) hooked up to a LocalTalk network. I use Prosel
> > > 8 99% of the time and just boot GS/OS to take advantage of AppleTalk. Is
> > > there any way I can establish an AppleTalk connection from the 8-bit
> > > side, or will I just have to live with this imperfect setup?
> > 
> > Get your hands on the diskette for the Apple II Workstation card.  I
> > think I grabbed an image from Apple's ftp site, but it was some time ago.
> 
> Didn't realise that would work on the GS.

It won't, unless you install a Workstation Card in the IIgs (and that
probably won't work in GS/OS, only ProDOS-8).

Apple never supplied any software which allowed an Apple IIgs to act as
an AppleShare client if booted locally in ProDOS-8.  You have to boot
from an AppleShare server (into any OS), or boot locally into ProDOS-16
or GS/OS with the AppleShare client software installed on the startup
disk.

The Workstation Card includes the AppleTalk stack in ROM on the card,
and it just needs an appropriate ATINIT file on the ProDOS-8 startup
disk to patch the card into ProDOS.  Without this card or the GS/OS
AppleShare client, the IIgs only has a partial AppleTalk stack in ROM
which doesn't contain enough code to act as an AppleShare client, only
to boot from a server.

The best you can manage with local boot into P8 on a IIgs (short of a
workstation card) is to access AppleTalk printers, which requires a
special version of the ATINIT file that includes a partial
implementation of the AppleTalk stack.  They didn't supply this version
of ATINIT directly to end users: I'm only aware of it as a product they
licensed for distribution with third party software.  I've seen it with
Publish-It!

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz