Re: Software for uSPEED math card

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Rich wrote:

>mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote in message
>news:<20040309160420.25181.00000956@mb-m07.aol.com>...
>> brad wrote:
>> 
>> >"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
>> >20040131135737.13722.00000755@mb-m27.aol.com">news:20040131135737.13722.00000755@mb-m27.aol.com...
>> >> I recently acquired a uSPEED math card for the Apple II series,
>> >> made by Applied Analytics, Inc.
>> >>
>> >> According to published reviews, it came with a version of Applesoft
>> >> that was patched to use if for floating-point arithmetic and functions.
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone have this software, or know where it can be found?
>> >
>
>I have Fastmath Coprocessor Applesoft patch.  I don't know what chip
>it uses, but maybe you can use a disassembly of the patch as a
>template to access the chips on your card.  I have the manual for it
>also.

I also have an AE FastMath card and it's software and manual.

The FastMath uses a completely different chip than the uSPEED
accelerator.  The uSPEED using an AMD9511, which has built-in
support for trig functions as well as floating-point ops and 32-bit
integer ops.

I have it on my list ;-) to look into the AE patch code to see what
they hooked, but from reading their manual, it was a very limited
patch.

The uSPEED Applesoft version would be a great thing to find.

-michael

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