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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Just for kicks, change to the echoii instead of the echoiiplus and see if that does anything.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:blindapple@bluegrasspals.com">Kyle via BlindApple</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, August 19, 2021 2:01 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:blindapple@bluegrasspals.com">Blind Apple Discussions</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:kyle@free2.ml">Kyle</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[Blindapple] Apple IIGS emulation</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I found what is supposed to be a talking Apple IIGS hard disk in the </p><p class=MsoNormal>Dropbox, but it only boots up and then beeps, giving me a system bell </p><p class=MsoNormal>about a second after I press any key. I am using the latest MAME version </p><p class=MsoNormal>0.234 with the apple2gs ROM from their Internet Archive. I modified my </p><p class=MsoNormal>apple2ee.ini that only had slot assignments, because the GS doesn't </p><p class=MsoNormal>appear to require a diskii-ng in slot 6. But the problem appears to be </p><p class=MsoNormal>that it is unable to find my Echo in slot 4. I have tried specifying </p><p class=MsoNormal>-sl4 echoiiplus on the command line, and have also tried placing the </p><p class=MsoNormal>Echo in other slots, all to no avail. I can get most DOS3.3 and ProDOS </p><p class=MsoNormal>floppies to boot, but none of them speak either. The one thing I did get </p><p class=MsoNormal>mostly working was the SAM disk, but SAM speaks as though he has been </p><p class=MsoNormal>recorded on the contemporary tape recorder and played back at a high </p><p class=MsoNormal>speed. Has anyone gotten this disk image or any other disk talking on </p><p class=MsoNormal>the GS? I should note that I'm specifying the apple2gs driver, which </p><p class=MsoNormal>loads the 1989 ROM03, although I also tried apple2gsr0 (1986) and </p><p class=MsoNormal>apple2gsr1 (1987), and none of them saw the Echo.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>~Kyle</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>BlindApple mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>BlindApple@bluegrasspals.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/blindapple</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>