Re: Premium Softcard IIe (was Re: Z 80 card)

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

>Paul R. Santa-Maria wrote:
>> Bill Garber wrote:
>> 
>>>I have an AUX slot CP/M card. It's called the
>>>MicroSoft Premium Softcard for IIe. I haven't
>>>tried it out yet. I'm still looking for a
>>>little more info on it. If anyone has any info
>>>or docs they can offer, scan or already
>>>online, I'd appreciate them.
>> 
>> 
>> I have scanned in the following
>> Premium SoftCard IIe manuals:
>> 
>> PSC2E.PDF      9MB  Premium SoftCard IIe
>> PSC2EBAS.PDF  10MB  MBASIC
>
>I have disassembled source of the SoftCard IIe 6502 BIOS.  It was done 
>many years ago by an Apple CP/M enthusiast (not myself).  He hacked in 
>support for the Vista A800 8-inch floppy controller and wrote a bunch of 
>utilities to sysgen bootable systems onto them.
>
>I think it required the Microsoft ALDS compiler and linker to build.
>
>I'll see if I can dig this stuff up.

That would be great, Steve--I'd like to see that myself.  ;-)

-michael

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