Michael J. Mahon wrote:
Gust L Friedemann wrote:sfahey wrote:To: Michael J. Mahon Re: Innovative Systems FPE... By: Michael J. Mahon to comp.sys.apple2 on Wed Aug 11 2010 02:20 pm > This might be a more interesting thing to do if there were > more of them in use...Weren't you contacting the fellow(s) that created the NumberCruncher?Maybe he'd release everything, since it seemed the NumberCruncher was a "more better" version of the FPE. I wouldn't mind having one of these.. Did any part of GS/OS make use of these? Or was it completely in-SANE?I don't think I'm that fellow...though I'd love to know more about the NumberCruncher. ;-)
http://www.asic.cc/NumberCruncher.htmlThe e-mails on that page bounce, but after a little googlizing I found Dirk's address. He says that Andreas only made about 20 or so- a looong time ago.
I know that's not technical data, but it's something. Anyone have the software mentioned on that above page? What did Chin-A-Youngs patch - patch? I undersatnd it's a SANE patch, but was that a INIT ROM patch, or just another on-disk-tool34 type of thing?
I remembered reading a thread about the NumberCruncher not that long ago... I thought it was on here. Maybe all this talk will bring out whoever mentioned it. If my memory serves, at least. lol
The FPE patches only affected the SANE toolkit, nothing else. There may have been a few applications that used it directly, but I'd be surprised given their (actual) rarity.
I thought perhaps someone had perhaps made a low-level patch to use it for... something under GS/OS. :)