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

[Matt Jenkins <mdj@pacific.net.au>]

Wayne Stewart wrote:
> 
> The TransWarp didn't have a spot for one but AE did advertise that they
> would sell you a 65802 to replace the 65C02 on the card.
> They did sell a 65816 card that clipped onto the RamWorks memory card
> though.
> I'd suspect they didn't sell many of them as there never was much software
> that
> would take advantage of it. Now if Apple had started putting 65802s into
> their
> later IIes the situation might be a lot different now.

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.

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.

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 :)

Cheers,

Matt