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<\/a> <\/p>\nIt was in the early `90s that multimedia CD-ROMs started to appear. Encyclopedia CD-ROMs became popular with the PC platform. One of the indexing formats used for these CD-ROMs is the discPassage format. To take advantage of these CD-ROMs, a software package sold by Sequential Systems was discQuest, written by Jawaid Bazyar of GNO\/ME fame. I installed the software, purchased an old discPassage-based CD-ROM on eBay, and was wallowing in CD-ROM multimedia joy with the IIgs. Unfortunately, the discPassage format did not last long and there\u2019s only a handful of titles that made use of it. I don\u2019t think any multimedia titles nowadays use it.<\/p>\n
Since I was playing with the SCSI stuff anyway, I decided to purchase a cheap floptical drive on eBay. Floptical disks are removable disks that have a capacity of 20MB. I salvaged an old SCSI drive enclosure to hook up the drive. I didn\u2019t have any floptical media, but for those who remember, floptical drives were meant to provide compatibility with the standard floppy drives. I inserted a regular 1.44MB DOS-formatted diskette, and sure enough, GS\/OS\u2019s MSDOS FST recognized the disk and allowed me to copy the contents of the diskette to my hard drive.<\/p>\n For those who are fortunate enough to have a SCSI card, but not have the hard-to-find 3.5\u201d Drive Controller Card, this can serve as an alternative to reading files from DOS-formatted diskettes. You won\u2019t need an older Mac to serve as an intermediary in order to transfer files from your PC to the IIgs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the best expansion cards to place in an Apple IIgs is a SCSI card. A SCSI card allowed mass storage devices to be connected to the Apple IIgs back in the `90s. This includes hard drives and optical … Continue reading <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/a><\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n