On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, jamesd wrote:
Card with
remote pushbutton switch ("unknown_03.jpg" on the website): All
TTL logic on board, ROM is a 2716 chip. Underside is labelled "Wild card".
Anyone seen one of these or know what it is?
okay i don't remember the exact name of it the card with the button, but it
was used as a hacking card, the button when pressed issued a NMI, so and goes
into a program on the ROM, and allows you to debug any program running at the
time, and can also save memory contents, it was used for hacking games and
removing copy protection from programs.
It is called, in fact, "The WildCard".
It's the only card of the bunch besides the ROM programmer (which I also
have) that I recognize. This is truly one cool lot of Apple cards. I'd
really like to know what the IC Tester does (though I think it's pretty
obvious ;)
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