From: mitch2gs@hotmail.com   
      
   qkumba  wrote:   
      
   >We support SCSI drives in Total Replay, at least, so if you can hook up a   
   >CD you should be able to run but not save high-scores.   
      
       I imagine it should work, but there may be unexpected results when Total   
   Replay attemps to write and unexpectedly encounters a read-only device.   
      
       Unfortunately I just discovered tonight my 24x CD-ROM is failing (motor   
   spindle?). And seems so is my Apple 600i. I do have an Apple 300e Plus   
   but its been having health issues too. I'll likely burn a CD nonetheless just   
   to see if it can be done. Apparently no one else has tried yet! Foe extra   
   fun, I'm going to try using a rewritable CD-RW disc.   
      
   >I don't know anything about the ROM revisions, so I can't answer that part.   
      
       Well if anyone else out there is familiar with the RamFAST revision C,   
   what was the final version of the 'U16' ROM (I vaguely remember 3.00)   
   and what does it control on the card compared to the U15 ROM?   
      
   >I also don't know if you'll be able to boot it directly from CD because I   
   don't   
   > know what the boot-sector looks like.  If it presents like a hard disk then   
   okay.   
   >If not, then not. However, if you boot from a floppy into BitsyBye or   
   similar, then   
   >you can select the CD drive and run the LAUNCHER.SYSTEM from it.   
   >Let me know if you get it mostly running but some games fail.  I can fix the   
   failures.   
      
       Well, as a test I hooked up an IOmega Zip drive, pulled out a 100 MB Zip   
   cart that already had a copy of Total Replay on it and popped it in....   
      
       And it WORKED! The RamFAST detected it and allows me to boot directly   
   off the Zip drive! It even allows me to Control-Reset and return to the menu   
   selector. Works nice and fast too! I love that it detects my Phasor card   
   and has music, sound and speech in a couple of games!   
      
       The only issue is it's a faulty Zip drive I retired from my IIGS, and   
   keeps clicking at random (yeah, that fun click-of-death issue). Good   
   enough for testing purposes for now, until if/when I can repair it.   
   Also have to figure out a color timing issue on my IIe, but that'll be   
   for another post. Long term I'd like to dig up a small SCSI hardisk   
   to put Total Recall on (kicking myself for giving several of them   
   away a decade ago!).   
      
   Mitchell Spector   
      
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