25 Sep
1997
25 Sep
'97
7:04 a.m.
AS a result of finding a tandy 1000 I also aquired (in said tandy) a
Diamond Computer Systems Trackstar-128.
What it is that I know of. It is a 128k apple][ board that resides in
a XT PC and can use the PC disks or external apple compatable disks
to run apple OS and programs. I have the borad and very thin installation
manual for it. it however is totally lacking in software. What makes it
interesting is there are two 65sc02p-1s on it. Any further data or software
for it would be of interest.
Also information on the 65SC02 would be of interest. I know it's basically
6502 but I've been told the later versions have extensions to the basic
instruction set.
Allison
25 Sep
25 Sep
7:38 a.m.
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Allison J Parent wrote:
Also information on the 65SC02 would be of interest.
I know it's basically
6502 but I've been told the later versions have extensions to the basic
instruction set.
The 65C02 runs slightly faster than the 6502 (1.1Mhz vs 1Mhz?) as well as
having an expanded instruction set. I never got into using any 65C02
instructions so I don't know what they'd be. Mostly it expanded the
addressing modes of some existing operations as well as adding some
addressing modes to instructions which didn't have any before (I think).
I'm not the person to ask I guess :)
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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9:27 a.m.
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Allison J Parent wrote:
What it is that I know of. It is a 128k apple][ board
that resides in
a XT PC and can use the PC disks or external apple compatable disks
to run apple OS and programs. I have the borad and very thin installation
manual for it. it however is totally lacking in software. What makes it
interesting is there are two 65sc02p-1s on it. Any further data or software
for it would be of interest.
I bought one of these about 8 years ago when Radio Shack put them on
"Where-Is-As-Is". The TrackStar works relatively well, but it is much
more usable with a composite monitor and a real Apple floppy drive than it
is with PC components. I used a monitor with both digital RGBI/CGA and
composite inputs and just switched the monitor input when changing between
Apple II and IBM PC modes.
Trackstar software and information is available from the classiccmp FTP
site - haliotis.bothell.washington.edu . I have the original disks
somewhere, but it will take some digging to find them.
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