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  1. Chuckle, at least it worked out well... I forget if the early IIc problem was a rom issue, or a port hardware issue... but they certainly did have some foibles, and of course someone might have blown it up in the interim. :)

     

  2. 6 hours ago, KG7PFS said:

    Sometime between Tuesday and Thursday. Tracking says it's still in Sacramental.

     

    I'd like to clarify my original question. I'm pretty happy with what the IIgs (or is it properly //gs?) has built in and I don't want to disable any of it. But there are 8 slots. One is for memory. One is for the hard drive. That leaves six empty slots. I *have* to put something in them. What's available, that I don't have to disable anything for?

     

    If I'm right, and I'm not 100% certain  ComputerEyes doesn't require the onboard goodies disabled.  Its a video capture card, I think I had it in slot 3...

    Your HD might be run by SCSI, but you're more likely to find something like a MicroDriveTurbo out there.  They run IDE, and generally come with a Compact flash card installed.  Only thing is, to effectively add to the software you need something like ciderpress under windoze. 

    None of the stereo sound cards I can recall require a specific slot or anything disabled.

     

    Accelerators usually want 2-3, its closer to the processor, but don't need it disabled.

    The VidHD doesn't... might be worth getting one, at some point the CRT's will keel over.

     

    Offhand that's all I can offer, I'm sure there are others though.

  3. Slightly OT but related.  Seeing as I have a VidHD, a IIgs and a CloneE.  I actually ended up putting the Vid in the IIe, because you can get a much nicer picture on a monitor size TV that has SCART/SECAM inputs on it.  Seeing as VidHD only does 1080p output, and its hard to find a anything under 32" in this day and age, it tends to blow all the dithering up unless you sit 6Km away from your picture.  I managed to snarf a 12" LCD with SCART from the local op shop for $10 and the image you get, being closer to native size anway, and a function of the size being much closer to the native RGB Monitor actually presents a much nicer picture to look at with minimal visible dithering.  Of course SCART is obsolete now too, so eventually we'll all be using something to get an HDMI output.

     

    Not sure what you'd do with networking on your GS.  I have a Mac Classic I can localtalk mine to, but its really only there for file sharing, and if you have to do anything to BIG its a tad on the slowish side although I'm rather spoilt by Gb ethernet these days.  On the ROM1 which I have now, you lose two slots to AppleTalk, slot 7 and slot 1 or 2. If you have a ROM3 you need only use slot 1 or 2.   Grab a printercable and attach it to your Mac, install the system software and away you go. With an ethernet card in place you probably won't get hugely better performance but you are at least on more recent media.  If you happen to get a mac with Ethernet then you can always use it as a bridge too, but that's only appletalk not other TCP protocols.  On the other side, you can use one of many serial options. Grab a wifi modem, someone is having trouble with one on a IIc at the moment not sure if that's here or another site off hand, but generally they are easy to drive, just use your favourite comms software and atdt the FQDN of the other end, be it BBS or some other telnet service.  You can always use something like TCPser  I have never had any joy with this but many have, its basically the same as the Wimodem except you run it on another PC. Or if you want to use all the TCP software you can find as natively as possible, if you can't fork out for an Ethernet card you can use another PC, or Pi of some sort as a bridge and use PPP to talk to it.   PPP on the GS will be significantly slower than any network card or Appletalk as your speeds are limited to 38.4k. Workstation card is useless, you already have it in the Appletalk capabilities of the GS. 

     

    So what do I do, although I have the Mac I rarely use it.  I tend to use the PPP option on an OrangePi, although I haven't done a lot with that either.  I keep getting close and then some life catastrophe happens and I have to pull it apart or something else is in pieces and I have no room to use the GS.  And after seeing the difference at viewing range the SCART option on a small display is MUCH better.

     

    @leech I used to have a ROM3 back in the day and although I can't complain about the rom1, I was given it. I miss the extra niceties on the ROM3, I'd give my left testicle or first born to grab another one but they seem to be fairly rare here (Australia). I miss my SCSI card too :?

  4. On 7/10/2020 at 2:46 AM, fimbulvetr said:

    I did the install, and I checked my cable to make sure it was the right one, but I am still having issues. I am starting to wonder if there is something wrong with the modem port on the IIc.

    Well it is possible... some versions of the IIc do have ordinary serial ports... with speed issues... If you want to test it though, the simplest and most telling test is to just try a loop back test.  It just requires you to short the TX and RX pins in the serial cable or port and try typing... if you get echo's of what you're typing then the serial port is doing something as they characters are going out the TX line and coming straight back in the RX line...

    I'd probably set the system to use a null modem with no init string.  This'll skip all the initialisation malarky, just go to "online" mode and try a few different port rates...

  5. 12 hours ago, KG7PFS said:

    I got one! I got one! I got one! :D

     

    Oh. Excuse me. I'm a little exited. By the time you read this, my new Apple //gs may already be in the mail!

     

    I know the //gs uses "virtual slots", that is, the built in hardware is mapped like it's in IIe slots. Many optional cards require the internal hardware to be disabled because they use the same space.

     

    There are other cards that don't require anything to be disabled. Where can I get a complete list of those?

     

    What about the SCSI card? I assume I can use Hard and floppy drives at the same time. Where does it go?

    The usual spot for SCSI is slot 7 making it a default boot device in lieu of any set slot in the control panel.  Sound cards usually end up in 1 or 2 from memory. VidHD can actually go in any slot off the top of my head too.  I have mine in 3 though.

    It becomes a question as to what is more important to YOU in the use of your IIgs, most people tend to use slot 1 or 2, as they tend to have either a printer or a modem.  Not so much both. So one serial port can often be sacrificed.  Slot4 is also a good candidate if you have a ROM3 GS as in the rom 3 the disabling of the slot doesn't disable the mouse firmware. On a rom1 you can't do this.  If you don't use 5.25" floppies 6 becomes available.  Or you can pop a card in 6 and swap the control panel to whichever device you're using...

     

    The cards that are not "using" a slot usually don't have much interaction with the system.  Phasor is mostly just powered from the BUS.  VidHD is sneaking a peek at the signals on the BUS but doesn't really inject any of its own.

  6. Might be the port rate :) Didn't think about that... a lot of the wimodems default to 1200... although you can crank it up as far as your hardware will cope with.

    IS proterm set up for your IIc? Might pay to do the install regime.  Otherwise go online and try different baud rate...

     

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  7. Not off hand, but you'll probably have to hold up handshaking on the IIc end... DSR off hand... but I don't have any info I can check with in front of me.  Only other word of warning, I find the wi-modems great, but slow to come online when powered up, so make sure its been on for a bit before you decide you can't talk to it at all. I'd either try a Hayes driver or even just Null driver..

     

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  8. On 5/9/2020 at 9:00 AM, fultonbot said:

    40 or so years ago I played a game on Apple II/IIe that I recall like this:
    - Side view (for sure)
    - Real-time (I think) 

    - horizontal scrolling (for sure)

    - war/battle/action game (for sure)

    - I believe you had multiple tanks, vehicles and they were scrolling to left as a battle was fought.

     

     

    That's all I've got.

    Any ideas?

    I believe I know what you're looking for... the terrorists have landed in Cherbourg go kill 'em. I was never much chop at this, they'd pop out a new tank just as my guys made it to the other side... now what was it called....I do believe its "Rescue Raiders"

     

    Anyway thats my best guess.

  9. 3 minutes ago, leech said:

    Cool, I'll see if I can find these in there and create entries if they are not.

    You won't be able to add directly.  I got to much junk like that.  IF you can post images here, or email them to sysop@tlp.zapto.org I'll add them in, and give you a guersney if you like. (No thats not a cow)

     

  10. On 4/26/2020 at 9:43 AM, leech said:

    I mainly ordered this bundle for the ProGrappler card that was in it, but now I have this hige stack of Apple II expansion cards that I have no use for.

    I have one Grappler+

    A bunch of Titan cards (I think these are also printer cards) and a few of the Skyman and Skyman2001 cards.

    I thi k most of these are worthless, but I do have at least one 80 column Apple card and another one that has 64kb on it as well.

    Not sure if these are of interest to anyone, but I will send them off with price of postage.

    Did I miss a photo of the lot somewhere? Or is there just the one of the Titan? Where about in the wired world are you? :)

  11. The first thing I'd try for that video problem is just changing the cabling.  I've had some pretty ordinary looking images cleaned up out of site just doing that, even if they pass a superficial visual examination.

     

     

     

     

     

     

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