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From: marms@sandia.UUCP (Mike Arms)
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Subject: Re: Apple II Emulators wanted
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Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 21:36:47 EDT
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> I think Quadram makes an Apple emulator board -- the Quadboard is the name
> (I think).  I'm not sure how it is for speed, but it does have a problem
> when it tries to do anything with the speaker (such as running games with
> sound, etc.), but like you said, it's not an ideal world..  The board is
> for the IBM.
> 

I have a Quadram "Quadlink" board in my IBM-PC. It works great on just
about everything, except for software which tries to muck with the disk
speed. Thus Locksmith does not work. However, all of the games that I
have work fine (ie: many, many games), and I have no problems with sound.
It runs about as fast as a real Apple.

The Quadlink is a true co-processor board. It has a 6502 uP with 64K of
ram on board. You get a ribbon cable to hook up to the regular IBM floppy
drives. Also it handles other DOS's. It runs DOS 3.3 fine, and the Apple
UCSD Pascal system.

Now if only I can get a communication program for it. I'm not sure if I
have access to COM1 on the IBM-PC, but the documentation leeds you to 
think that. I can convert files from IBM format to DOS 3.3 format
using one of Quadram's utilities.

Anyone have a comm program for the Apple II+ written in Applesoft Basic?

If so, I would really appreciate getting it e-mail. It need not be 
anything fancy, just enough to download from a BBS as I am sure that 
I can find more comm programs there than I know what to do with.
It's this getting bootstrapped that is the problem. Thanks.

Mike Arms
Sandia National Laboratories
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