Re: 65816 in a IIe? (or, buddy, can you spare a 65802?)

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Matt Jenkins wrote:

> Couple of things:
>
> The card that clips onto the RamWorks is different than a 65802, since
> it
> allows you to access the native addressing mode of the 65816, and
> address
> all the memory on the RamWorks (3 meg max. on the RWIII IIRC) linearly.
> VIP
> professional could use this, but I don't know of anything else.

Interesting, I knew it was a 65816 but that was about it.

> The Transwarp is capable of supporting a 65816 in it's processor socket,
> but
> this will behave exactly like adding a 65802, except for running at
> 3.6Mhz.

Yes, I my posting was from what I recalled about it and like a lot of memories
sometimes faulty. I've reread what little I have on it and found the TransWarp
16 bit option was a 65816 option.

> I'd venture that it'd be easier to locate an original Transwarp and
> chuck a
> 65816 chip on it than it would be to locate a 65802 these days. It'd be
> faster too :)

I've a number of TransWarp cards and have since upgraded most of them.
Unfortunately I'm not sure if I have anything I'm likely to ever use that'll
utilise the 65816. However it doesn't do any harm and leaves me with a
few more spare 65C02s in case I should need to enhance more IIes again.

    Wayne