Cheesy old hardware

[tombo@mail.on-line.co.uk (Richard King)]

I have a couple of somewhat intractable problems that I could use a
little help with, if I may be so pushy!
 
First, the upgrade to GS/OS 6.0.1 seems to have ruined the init file for
my iS 68881 FPE. This happens _every_ time we upgrade the system, and the
company is exceedingly unresponsive to requests for help. Do you know
anyone who has a 6.0.1-compatible init file for this? The downloadable
one at caltech etc. is FPE231, which doesn't work. It's not essential,
but it would make some things, like HyperCard, run a little faster. For
my own programs, I can compile them with the FPE enabled, and write
direct calls to it.
 
Second, I have an Analytical Engines Saybrook card - a 14MHz 68000 on a
card - and I'd purely love to hear from anyone else who has one, and uses
it.
 
The same applies to my Number Nine Graphics card - an NEC7220 VDP with
video RAM - which gives 8-bit colour (from 12 bits) at 512 x 512
resolution. Ideally, I'd like to get the p-System software for the
Saybrook which had the drivers for the Number 9 card. I know it was
produced, but the company folded (to re-emerge as Applied Engineering, I
strongly suspect - same AE logo and also in Carollton TX) before I could
get hold of it, and Applied Engineering never acknowledged that it had
ever had anything to do with Analytical Engines - much like they now seem
to disavow all knowledge of their Apple II product-line! (I think it was
the lawyers.)
 
This would result in the ultimate cheesy system - an Apple //e that I
could use (with my Graphics Tablet) as a moderately serious graphics
workstation! Even better, in some ways, than a GS! Certainly, with that
68000 in there, it would (and did) run like shit off a shovel! Another
possibility - which I seriously don't intend to try - would be a
QuickDraw patch to use the Number Nine card IN the GS. Do anybody know of
anyone crazy enough to have done that?


Thanks in advance for any assistance offered.