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Software and docs for 6100 DOS card
- Thread starter Quadraman
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Two say Macintosh display drivers 1&2, one just says 'Mouse' which I am going to guess is either a MS mouse driver or allows DOS to recognize the ADB mouse, one that says SoundBlaster 16, two installer discs (one says DOS installer the other says Macintosh installer) four DOS 6.22 floppies, two discs that say DOS 3.1 Laserwriter 1&2 and three that say Windows 95 Laserwriter 1,2 & 3. The Laserwriter discs aren't part of the original package, though. The seller just threw those in as a bonus. How useful they actually are remains to be seen but I do have a Laserwriter here so I hope I will be able to use them.
Note that there are three different PDS right angle adapters for the 6100:
Only the second one will work with the DOS card. This also means that the 6100 DOS card will work in an '040 PDS Mac.
- 601 PDS -> PDS passthrough for AV and HPV video cards. The Sonnet G3 upgrade also presents a 601 PDS
- 601 PDS -> '040 PDS for the DOS card
- 601 PDS -> Nubus
Only the second one will work with the DOS card. This also means that the 6100 DOS card will work in an '040 PDS Mac.
Well, I was searching ebay and actually found another 6100 DOS compatible. The opening bid was 99 cents so I bid it and won. The shipping was a bit high but not more than I would have been willing to pay for another machine like it so I grabbed that instead. A DOS card and octopus cable would have come close to what I paid for the machine if I had to have them shipped from two sellers anyway.
On a recent trawl for documentation on the 6100 DOS card, I found this (on the Houdini card FAQ):
The DOS card can share one monitor attached to both cards via
a Y cable or it can independently drive a VGA, Apple 13, 14
and 16" monitor. The connector is a standard Mac 15-pin
connector. If you use one monitor, the image jumps when you
switch but Apple has an option to fade the Mac screen before
this happens. When you use two screens you can see both update
simultaneously, but when you are in a DOS environment the Mac
screen is always slightly dimmed. I tried connecting two Apple
16" displays (one the Mac and one to the card) it worked fine.
In fact, with the correct Windows drivers you can easily get
800x600 on the Apple 16".
The FAQ was written primarily for use of the card in the Quadra series, but it might be worth seeing if a monitor can be made to work without the 4-headed cable once you get the machine.
The DOS card can share one monitor attached to both cards via
a Y cable or it can independently drive a VGA, Apple 13, 14
and 16" monitor. The connector is a standard Mac 15-pin
connector. If you use one monitor, the image jumps when you
switch but Apple has an option to fade the Mac screen before
this happens. When you use two screens you can see both update
simultaneously, but when you are in a DOS environment the Mac
screen is always slightly dimmed. I tried connecting two Apple
16" displays (one the Mac and one to the card) it worked fine.
In fact, with the correct Windows drivers you can easily get
800x600 on the Apple 16".
The FAQ was written primarily for use of the card in the Quadra series, but it might be worth seeing if a monitor can be made to work without the 4-headed cable once you get the machine.
My 6100 DOS card has a strange connector, it is not a typical Euro-DIN style PDS connector. So I suppose you would need to fashion some sort of adapter to use the 6100 DOS card with an 040 Mac.
As someone else on here rightly pointed out the 6100/DOS card cabling allows you to share one display between the DOS or Mac OS environment(s)
It is possible to plug a display directly into the DOS card and get by without the cable - You lose the seamless switching between Mac OS and DOS obviously
A joystick port is also part of the 6100/DOS card connector cable
The 6100/AV has an adapter that allows the DOS card to be connected to an Audiovision display, making for an ugly tangle of wires.
The AV adapter also adds ADB, line in/out for good measure
The combined length of all these cables is more than 1 metre (if you include cable from the Audiovison display too)
On a further note, all software in the form of disk images for Apple shipped DOS cards were included on the CD titled 'Legacy Recovery' that some AASP's had access to
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