Hi all,
at last I'm back in Australia and I'm playing with the CFFA3000 after ordering it sometime in 2011!
It's pretty damn awesome, and I've upgraded to v3.1b2 of the firmware and I intend to write a full review on What is the Apple IIGS? (including improved boot times from the original v3.0 firmware), but at the moment, I have a question that I haven't found answered in the manual.
How do I boot into FTA demos (or anything else that doesn't use ProDOS or GS/OS?
Given that the 2images I have for the Xmas Demo and Modulae (two I've tried) can't be mounted into the Disk II assignments and mounting them into the Smartport and rebooting results in a black screen for the Xmas Demo and a Module Boot Error for Modulae, how do you boot them? I've tried the Space Harrier Demo, the Delta Demo...as well as Alien Mind and Tomahawk, which also use custom operating systems.
The only demo/custom operating system that has worked is the ROM03 edition of the Nucleus Demo.
Currently, I am trying out the CFFA3000 on a ROM03 and otherwise it's been working well. I have been using it on a ROM01, but just this morning, the power supply decided to give up the ghost. I can try with a ROM01 as well if that would help with testing.
Has something broken with the beta version of the firmware? Even before the CFFA3000 was released, I asked David Schmidt to test these types of tricky disk images and he was having more success then than I am now.
Thanks in advance!
- Alex