Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!brsmith
From: brsmith@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Brian R. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS Slots
Message-ID: <4747@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 88 18:53:28 GMT
Reply-To: brsmith@umn-cs.UUCP (Brian R. Smith)
Organization: University of Minnesota
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Re: Mouse Card in slot 4

I thought it was possible to use slot 4 for other cards, as long as you used
the mouse only as an ADB device.  The only problem with this is that older
(Apple II) programs wouldn't find the mouse.

And I know for a fact that you can use slots 3 & 4 for cards that don't need
ROM's regardless of what you have the control panel set to.  I had a cheepo
modem with proprietary software that just uses the hardware I/O locations,
and wasn't affected at all by what the Control Panel said was in those slots.

Re: Smartport and 5.25 drives.

What we need here is a clever hacker to make a smartport driver for the
5.25" drives.  They're already hooked up to the same hardware as the 3.5"
drives, it's just that they have their own driver ROM in the slot 6 ROM
space.  Of course, this means you can't boot slot 6... big loss.  You'd have
to switch slot 6 back to the ROM's to run DOS3.3 stuff then, but I do that
so rarely it wouldn't be much of an inconvenience.

Brian Smith
[brsmith@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu.arpa]