Re: Wildcard

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <867271489.10922@dejanews.com>,  <mdragon@polarnet.com> wrote:
>Does anybody know what a Wildcard does? I found one in a pallet of apple
>stuff I bought for 5 bucks. Also found a Sup'r Mod. Also, does a Z-Card
>work with the IIGS?

A Wildcard is a type of cracking card. You run a protected program on your 
II with the card in it and when the program is in memory, you press the button.
The card sends a non maskable interrupt to the system and control goes to the
card. The card lets you save memory to a disk, effectively removing protection
from the program. This is really only useful on old games which are entirely
memory resident. Kinda cool to have though, I bought one new for my //e before
I got my IIgs, and it's still in there. Don't try the card in a IIgs BTW, 
Central Point told me it wouldn't work when I got it.

I'm guessing a Z card is a Z80 card. These work in IIgses provided you set
the system speed to normal and have appropriate software. Who wants to run
CP/M on a IIgs though? Yecch.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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