Re: Apple II Accelerator Project

["B. Keb" <bkebbe@hotmail.com>]

frankc <frankc@NOSPAMsrv.net> wrote in message
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>
> There in not, to my knowledge, any accelerator that works in the Apple II
that
> uses an intel x86 processor.  When there is one the ground work will be
done to
> speed up the accelerator to 386, 485, Pentium, Pentium II, Athlon and who
knows
> what else.  Practically I think a 486 66 would be a good bet.  Anything
later
> uses 3 volt chips and would need interfacing circuitry.
>

There was a  Emulator Card called the ALF 8088.  The company was from
Denver, and they both speeded up an Apple II plus, and there were was a way
to run the 8088 as a computer, which we did not use.... it didn't have a
DOS.

We used it when we complied Applesoft using a "call" to the board, which
gave a 25% speedup, and more importantly, a unique serial number in each ALF
Card
which protected my $900/month subscription from pirates. I still have some
of these, as well as a running Genie 5+5 drive.


Bruce
near Seattle

mnbkebbe@dontspammeoakharbor.net





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