Re: ZIP GSX 1.0.1 vs 1.0.2

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Aug 29, 4:36 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> Bill Garber wrote:
>
> > "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote in message
> >news:9GJtk.14179$4s1.1851@newsfe06.iad...
> >> "Bill Garber" <willy4...@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.

Even at 4Mhz I find it's good enough, given your disk IO is also fast.

The only downside is not being able to have multiple Apple II's
although you at least don't have that problem ;-)

Matt