Re: CFFA for IIc and IIc+?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Simon D. Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, a2retro wrote:
>
> > 3) While I am on the subject of the memory expansion bus, lets not throw
> > the baby out with the bath water. I felt early on, I wanted to include 
> > what I was possibly replacing since there is only room for one card at 
> > a time. Would someone want to leave out the 1MB Memory card they have 
> > grown used to in favor of a CF/SDCard? This is why I started with 
> > emulating the 1MB memory card when I started my project. (I know CB 
> > has 512KB of SRAM which is a good thing :)
>
> How many 8-bit applications really make use of the memory expansion? I 
> use mine as a RAM disk, for which purpose an SD card would be much 
> better suited. I can't imagine there'd be much of a performance hit... 
> or at least not a noticeable one.

Copy II Plus and Appleworks are two prominent examples, and for
copying a 3.5" disk, 1MB of RAM makes it happen without disk swaps.

-michael

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