Re: ZIP GSX 1.0.1 vs 1.0.2

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Bill Garber wrote:
> "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> wrote in message 
> news:9GJtk.14179$4s1.1851@newsfe06.iad...
> > "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message 
> > S-KdnWeDV7VEzCrVnZ2dnUVZ_tzinZ2d@comcast.com">news:S-KdnWeDV7VEzCrVnZ2dnUVZ_tzinZ2d@comcast.com...
> > > Everything listed at ReactiveMicro as an upgrade is more or less a 
> > > hack to increase speed and cache ram.
> >
> > Hey Mr. Gerber,
> >
> > Speaking of which and accelerators and such...
> >
> > I wish that I still had my orginal Apple //e with the zip chip but my 
> > son somehow misplaced it, so wishing for that is not realistic. All I 
> > have left of that one is a joystick. This one as you know is stock.
> >
> > So instead I wish that you or Henry or someone else with the talent to 
> > do so would provide an Apple //e accelerator, or if you ever come 
> > across a ZIP chip or similar for the //e that you don't want to hoard 
> > for yourself, please let me buy it from you.
>
> Accelerators are not trivial. Btw, ZipChip is not the only one for the 
> IIe, and also, the earlier one for II+ works in them. I've run IIe with 
> 3-4 different ones.

But the 8MHz Zip Chip is the coolest and fastest, by far (not counting
the Zip clone, the 10MHz RocketChip, which is quite rare).

It makes the //e fast enough that development in the native
environment is quite acceptable.

-michael

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