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From: brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Titan Accelerator II
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 18:17:00 GMT
Message-ID: <1378104229-970407111700@rook.wa.com>
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 Mitchell spewed forth:

 SCC(|     I picked up some odds and ends on the weekend (still going
     | through it) and one interesting item is a Titan Accelerator II

I have two, I think they're pretty neat.

 SCC(|     First off, how did this accelerator differ from the TransWarp
     | and ZipChip in terms of functionality and compatibility? I would
     | like to install it in my Apple IIe and use with recent software,
     | like ProTERM. There is a bank of eight switches and seven jumpers

Simply put:  The two blocks correspond to the slots in a //e.  The first
block is for time-dependant slots (drives, printer, etc.) -- flip these
switches OFF if there's something time sensitive in it.  The second is
for any memory you have in (if you are using a ][/][+ the card goes in
the aux slot 0, and goes in any other slot on a //e, so there is no
jumper for slot 0) -- pull the jumper OFF for any slot with memory.

 SCC(|     As for working with the card, when I plug it in most software
     | will refuse to run. An "Unable to load ProDOS" message appears if
     | I try and start most things up (removing the boards fixes this).

I have no clue.  The Titan card replaces having a 65C02 in some
applications but not others (Angel likes it, Shrink It does not).

     | Also odd, if I press control-reset, I see garbage off the to side
     | of the screen, like this:

The card does retain a charge; my experience says that one has to power
down for 15-20 seconds before rebooting to not get garbage.  As for a
control-reset, I haven't done that much lately.  :)

 SCC(|     Is the board not properly configured or does it sound
     | defective? All the chips are socketed (minus the silver "Titan
     | Technologies" box in the corner) but I'm not sure which chips

The only thing I know is that you have to slow the thing down -- speed
is 3.5MHz -- to reset any system clock you have, and some programs don't
really like it (this happened with some BBS program I was setting up).
The POKE there is:  49286,x where x=5 for fast and x=1 for 1MHz, and
x=10 to turn the thing off completely (a dangerous choice).

The card does wonders for me in Publish It! 4, speeds up the pagination
in AppleWorks, and doesn't do anything special in ProTerm except change
the tone of the "connect" sounds.  :)

 * 2qwk! 2.03 * "Cold meat, mutton pies/Tell me when your mother dies" -boy
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yet another annoying post by brian.hammack@rook.wa.com -- deal with it.