Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!gaynor From: gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Requesting Info on the AppleII card for the MacLC Message-ID: <1990Dec10.171614.26671@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Date: 10 Dec 90 17:16:14 GMT References: <3101@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Sender: news@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 50 Nntp-Posting-Host: left.magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu In article <3101@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> steffen@merlin.bcm.tmc.edu (David Steffen) writes: >Questions about Apple II card for Macintosh LC: >(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.) That, I don't know. One would think that this would be logical, and I saw a number of Apple 3.5" disks at a demo of the II card, but I never actually saw one put in the drive and loaded. >(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? The II card takes over the video. Acts just like a nice RGB monitor hooked up to an Apple IIc or the like. Apple II level video, with no new enhancements. >(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)? The Apple II Card has a port for hooking up a 5.25" Apple II external drive, which will function as an Apple II drive. MS-DOS, though, I doubt. >(4) Can you run AppleII processes at the same time as Mac processes, >e.g. under Multifinder? Nope. The Apple II card completely takes over the LC. You aren't running Finder, or Multifinder, or anything. You're suddenly an Apple II. (I was hoping for a windowed process, too.) >(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.) Considering how limited the card seems to be, I doubt it. Granted, this -is- a good Apple II card. Cheap, -full- compatibility all Apples but the IIgs. But it's a binary solution. Either you're a Mac or you're an Apple. No Macs running Apple processes in windows. -- Jim Gaynor - Systems Analyst 1 + "This is Serious. He is Lost. The Ohio State University ACS-FM-OCES | We must begin the Search at once." gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.ed | -Rabbit, from gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu + "The House at Pooh Corner"