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From: steffen@merlin.bcm.tmc.edu (David Steffen)
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Subject: Requesting Info on the AppleII card for the MacLC
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Date: 6 Dec 90 19:55:14 GMT
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  I am planning on buying a MacLC, and am considering the AppleII card.
However, nothing I have read so far has given much in the way of details
about it.  I have a couple of specific questions, but am equally
interested in anything else anyone knows about it.
Questions:
(1) Using this card, can you read/write 3.5" AppleII disks in the
built-in Mac disk drive transparently? (e.g. without exiting AppleII
emulation, using Apple file exchange, copying to the hard disk, etc.)
(2) What does AppleII emulation do to the screen display?  Does it
make it as ugly as an AppleII (low resolution, restricted color
combinations) or does it assume you have an AppleII with a really
snazzy display?
(3) Is it possible to somehow attach a 5.25" drive that can both
function as an AppleII drive and as an MSDOS drive (e.g. under Apple
File Exchange)?
(4) Can you run AppleII processes at the same time as Mac processes,
e.g. under Multifinder?
(5) Is it possible (assuming the ability to program) to use this card
in other inventive ways, e.g. as a coprocessor?  (I guess I am asking
if there will be any technical info available as to how it is accessed
from the Mac.)

Thanks!

Please feel free to email to me, and I will summarize responses to the
net, on the assumption that others may be as curious as I am.

-- 
David Steffen
Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX 77030
Telephone = (713) 798-6655, FAX = (713) 790-0545
Internet = steffen@mbir.bcm.tmc.edu