GemStart Drivers Various Versions

[Phipli]

I swear I'd already uploaded them here somewhere but can't find them.



Find attached two versions of the GemStart drivers for Total Systems 020 / 030 processor upgrades, such as the Mercury, Gemini, Gemini Ultra and Gemini Integra. Version 2.1 is good for System 6 etc, version 3 is good for 7.0.1 and seems to mostly work with 7.1.

The Extreme Systems Vandal driver is actually a modified version of the GemStart Driver and can also be used with similar cards.


These drivers work with other upgrades as well, often being quite happy to work with Mobius, Applied Engineering and GCC cards, as well as probably others. There are some more version variants about (I have seen two Extreme Systems versions, and several variants of GemStart version 2.x)... but this is a start to get it searchable on here.

A fresh install of Virtual is needed to access up to 16MB of RAM on cards with additional RAM slots. Its a bit of a fiddle to set up.

 

[mg.man]

The Extreme Systems Vandal driver is actually a modified version of the GemStart Driver

Ooo... are you gonna upload that as well?

 

[mg.man]

A fresh install of Virtual is needed to access up to 16MB of RAM on cards with additional RAM slots. Its a bit of a fiddle to set up.

Can you share the incantation? I've so far not been able to make that work - but I've not spent serious time on it yet.

 

[Phipli]

Can you share the incantation? I've so far not been able to make that work - but I've not spent serious time on it yet.

The trick is 90% starting from the installer, not just grabbing Virtual from another computer. The installer asks you what card you have and modifies Virtual to suit. You can't retrospectively change how it sorts out the memory map.

I'll grab some more files off my Pismo. GemStart 2.2 is on my SE so a bit more tricky to fetch, but I have a copy of ExSys to hand.

Excuse the mess, this is every different file I have on my phone for ExSys... including the LC card driver. There will be duplicates.

 

[Phipli]

And Compact Virtual 3 (needed for 7.0.1) is here :

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/connectix-compact-virtual-302-installer

 

[Phipli]

@JC8080

Worked out why GemStart 2.2 wasn't on my network share...

Find attached a copy of Version 2.2 from my actual driver floppy disk

@Bolle : is this in your collection?

 

[ObeyDaleks]

Nice, I don’t think 2.2 is available anywhere else - at least not that I could find.

 

[Phipli]

Nice, I don’t think 2.2 is available anywhere else - at least not that I could find.

Sorry about that, I assumed I'd downloaded it from somewhere. I usually try to make sure anything I have is available online. In my defense, I had imaged it... just my SE isn't networked so it hadn't made it any further.

The attached image is a copy of the files (and the System Folder on it isn't blessed so you'll need to boot from another disk to 'poke' it into life), not a perfect disk copy. There was a bad block in the unused space and Disk Copy was throwing a fit. All the actual files copied just fine.

 

[ObeyDaleks]

No worries, I wasn’t calling you out, I’m just happy we have access to it now. Thank you!

 

[Phipli]

Software in this thread is also potentially useful as there are commonalities between the cards.

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Thanks @Bolle for reminding me. Perhaps I'll have another go at getting video running.