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From: mday@apple.com (Mark Day)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple //e card
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Date: 4 May 92 16:45:30 GMT
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In article <1992Apr22.211153.18004@unlv.edu>, sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
> 
> They feel like kludges.  All your Apple II displays are translated
> into QuickDraw calls.  Given that the Mac LC isn't a particularly
> spiffy machine to begin with, Apple II video performance suffers as a
> result.  (Try the Solid-Apple-Control-Reset self-test sometime.  A
> real IIe completes the test in about 10 seconds.  The Mac LC grinds
> through the test in about 2 or 3 minutes.)

Actually, it doesn't use QuickDraw.  It writes directly to the Grafport
(i.e. the Mac's video memory).  Obviously this takes a little time to figure
out which pixels to change, do color fringing, etc.; it's a little longer
than the 1us store cycle on the IIe side, so video-intensive software will
run a little slower.

> I prefer to call it a "IIc-on-a-card" instead of a "IIe-on-a-card"
> because, like the IIc, this card lacks expansion slots.  The only
> expansion possible is to add a single 5.25" floppy drive and a single
> joystick.  The Control Panel lets you convert up to 1 meg of Mac
> memory into slinky RAM.  Both serial ports, the mouse, and the clock
> are mapped into virtual slots.  No hard-drive access is available--a
> critical shortcoming.

Get the current software.  It supports ProDOS partitions on your hard
drive (or ProDOS-formatted hard drives), AppleShare, and System 7.
I've even heard some people say they use System 7's File Sharing and
then log into their Mac (HFS) volumes from the IIe side using AppleShare
(yes, you can log onto your own machine) to get at their Mac volumes.

-Mark Day, Apple II Networking
mday@apple.com, Mark_Day@gateway.qm.apple.com