Re: 65c816 in a IIc

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <de2abfe2-662e-4eb1-9a51-bd004f693262@b6g2000pre.googlegroups.com>,
 <gids.rs@sasktel.net> wrote:
>Has anyone successfully used the 65c816 in a IIc that is claimed with
>using the Z-Ram Ultra cards without any additional hardware?  Is this
>a special chip designed for the IIc?  I don't imagine one can pull the
>65c816 from a IIGS and have it work.

It's most likely something similar to the '816 add-on for the RamWorks
cards, which I had installed in my IIe for a short time (the 10-MHz
RocketChip I had at the time was more useful).  You'd have to write your own
code to take advantage of the extra instructions, as there's nothing from
the IIGS that would work with it.

The board should have an '816 preinstalled...and yes, it's the same
processor that would've found its way into a IIGS.  Expansion memory on a
RamWorks or Z-RAM is mapped into the address space beyond 64K when running
16-bit code.

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