mackay@iisat.UUCP (Daniel MacKay) (04/13/89)
Hi. One of the tests to see if your //c has been upgraded to the new ROMS is to type, from BASIC, PR#7. If the //c has been upgraded, the message "Appletalk Offline" appears at the bottom of your screen. Does anyone have any idea what it means for a //c to have Appletalk firmware in the $C700 space? I've never seen any hardware to support it or software that uses it. A quick perusal of my //c tech ref man shows several pages of assembler source devoted to the $C700 ROM space, both in main and aux memory. It appears from the comments in the code that there's some code for booting from Appletalk, receiving packets (from the ACIA?), sending packets, &c. The version number of the Appletalk software in my //c, which is at $C7FF, is zero. Is this some wierd project by Apple that never got finished? Has anyone ever put this code to use? Frankly, I preferred having my "Boot from the external drive" code in the $C700 space over this useless Appletalk code, but it might make an interesting project for someone to patch it up, build a little driver for ProDOS, and have AppleShare running on the //c or something. Just a rainy afternoon project, I'm sure. :-) -- +---------+ From the IIS Public Usenet | _ | disk of Halifax, Nova Scotia | (_)===| Daniel mackay@iisat.UUCP | | ...{utai,uunet,watmath}!dalcs!iisat!mackay +---------+ MACKAY@DALAC.BITNET