GS RAM cards?

[H3NRY]

Here's a question for you A2 experts. Looking thru my Apple II stuff, I found a "Zeus RAM Card", which is evidently an early version of the Apple II GS RAM expansion card. It only has 1 jumper position instead of 2, and all chips are socketed. So what do the jumpers on the GS RAM card do?

One of these days I'm going to set up the GS I was given last year and see what it can do. I'm familiar with the early Apple IIs, but never used a GS. If a GS can do Appletalk with a Mac, maybe that's the easy way to get files from one platform to the other. My GS is a ROM 01 Woz edition. Is it worth trying to find the later ROM?

 

[Unknown_K]

The Woz edition is ROM 0.

No idea which RAM card you have.

The IIgs can do Appletalk with a mac using the serial port, you just need a version of GS/OS installed with the correct driver. There are also HFS drivers for GS/OS 6 that let you read mac hard drive partitions directly.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

The Woz edition is ROM 0.
No idea which RAM card you have.

The IIgs can do Appletalk with a mac using the serial port, you just need a version of GS/OS installed with the correct driver. There are also HFS drivers for GS/OS 6 that let you read mac hard drive partitions directly.

He might be meaning that he has a Woz edition that was upgraded with a ROM 1 motherboard.

And I really need a SCSI card for my GS, so I can install GS/OS..

 

[H3NRY]

The IIgs can do Appletalk with a mac using the serial port, you just need a version of GS/OS installed with the correct driver. There are also HFS drivers for GS/OS 6 that let you read mac hard drive partitions directly.

Can GS/OS read a DOS 3.3 floppy? What I'm looking for is an easy way to get DOS 3.2 and 3.3 files to MacOS X. Is GS/OS another name for ProDOS, or is it something different? My GS has Woz' signature on the front, but apparently has the 01 ROMs. It has a 1MB RAM expansion card and a single 5" floppy. Is it worth messing with? I don't know anything about the GS generation of Apples except that they evolved from the Apple II. Are 03 ROMs available? I have a ROM burner.

What I've been doing is using the ProDOS Convert utility to move files from DOS to a 3.5" ProDOS floppy, which a 68K Mac can read. That is:

DOS (HD) -> 5" DOS floppy -> ProDOS 800K disk -> Mac SE -> Mac Cube (OS 10.4) -> Mac Mini (OS 10.6)

Big nuisance, since Snow Leopard Macs have lost AppleTalk, and OS X doesn't read ProDOS, and ProDOS doesn't read any DOS format except 5" floppies.

 

[Dog Cow]

The IIgs can do Appletalk with a mac using the serial port, you just need a version of GS/OS installed with the correct driver. There are also HFS drivers for GS/OS 6 that let you read mac hard drive partitions directly.

Can GS/OS read a DOS 3.3 floppy?

Yes, with the DOS HFS driver.

Are 03 ROMs available?

Yes.

Is GS/OS another name for ProDOS, or is it something different?

ProDOS is the name of the file system, just like Macs use HFS. GS/OS is the operating system which does the windows, toolbox, program launching, etc.

 

[H3NRY]

ProDOS is the name of the file system, just like Macs use HFS. GS/OS is the operating system which does the windows, toolbox, program launching, etc.

Gotcha. Sounds like it is worthwhile dusting off that GS and getting GS/OS up and running. IIR it's still available from Apple's servers.

I'll do some poking around online and see what I need. Thanks.

 

[ppuskari]

Ahh the IIGS.. My favorite machine of all time!!!

If you are looking for a LOT of what was available for this machine please visit the "What is the Apple IIGS" website. it's located here:

http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/

It is simply one of the best organized collections of IIGS specific hardware, books, magazines, and software that you can find. Actually if someone has another they like, I would like to hear that too.

I'm in the process of scanning and submitting a couple of the book covers he doesn't have up on the site. One of them was in the personal collection of "Burger" Bill Hineman (sp)... Although I read somewhere he goes by "Becky" now, so who knows the story on that. The book I got from him a couple years back was the IIGS E'pluche book. Guess it paid to pay attention in French classes all four years of high school.

Not sure on the pin set, but yes the Zeus was the early vesion of the IIGS 1Meg total ram card.

Two of my 12 IIGS machines was ROM 0. One is my original Rom 0, that was a WOZ box, but I had the upgrade to Rom 01 done early on as well as the video chip upgrade to remove the "pinky" fringe. You CAN NOT upgrade a Rom 01 to ROM 03 since it's a different rom size entirely as well was only used on the ROM 03 motherboard which had the full 1meg soldered on board, and much better electrical noise reduction.

On another side note.. I was the "namer" of the SecondSight GS video board back in the day. ForeSight GS was my own homebrew project that went up in magic smoke so I quit working on it and then the guys came out with their card, and they liked my name for the Second card apparently since they selected it.