Re: Unknown card. Anyone know it?

[salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <9o43lo01jpd@enews3.newsguy.com>,
David Chiu <none@nowhere.org> wrote:
>Now that you mentioned it, I do recall some AE products had 65802 option,
>although I keep thinking it's a daughter board of some sort...

Almost correct...there was a daughterboard for the RamWorks, but it had a
full-up 65816 on it.  The processor had linear access to RamWorks memory, so
(aside from still running at 1.0 MHz), you had most of the same capabilities
in assembly language that you would have with a IIGS.

(I had one (picked it up for free), but it mostly gathered dust because I
liked my 10-MHz RocketChip more than having a processor for which there was
virtually no support unless you had a IIGS.  I wonder if you could use a
ZipGS with this daughterboard...hmm, if you could combine the two and add in
a Video Overlay card, the only thing from the GS that you wouldn't have
would be the Ensoniq DOC.  If I still had the daughterboard, I would be
half-tempted to try it out and see if it worked.  You'd no doubt need to
rewrite the control software for the ZipGS so it'd run under ProDOS 8, but
you could at least configure it in a IIGS before installing it.  If the
ZipGS expects the processor socket to be running at 2.8 MHz, that could keep
it from working, though...)

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