5 Aug
2005
5 Aug
'05
1:10 p.m.
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Ethan Dicks wrote:
We did run it on original chiclet-key PETs. I now remember Larry saying
it wouldn't work on the newer PETs, which is why I had to borrow one of
his. I'll have to check memory requirements again. I think it is
probably stamped on the tape.
Right.
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Do you know if
it will work on all the PETs?
I don't remember what ROMs it was for, but it is old enough that it
was probably for BASIC 2.0 ROMs (not original chicklet-key PETs, and not 4032s and 8032s). There may or may not be a
BASIC 4.0 version.
I never owned the program, but I did have a PET back in those days,
and the article in Byte describing the game. Later, I hooked up my
Right, and the article also described how to make the cable.
PET to my new C-64 and invented my own version of the
cable and the
byte primitives. I didn't have a disk drive or a serial port on the
PET, so it was a great way to move data between the two machines.
Neat.
Is it possible
to hookup more then two PETs at a time?
No. It uses a user-port-to-user-port cable. The user port doesn't
use multi-drop or open-collector buffers, so you can only have one
machine on each end of the wire.
Theoretically, one could design a ring structure to hook A to B, B to
C, and C to A, then invent some sort of token passing mechanism, but
the Flash Attack cable is strictly A to B.