Attachment | Size |
---|---|
AP20.JPG | 526.62 KB |
DTACK Grande.JPG | 523.88 KB |
I created this thread to discuss unusual cards (request info from the community, etc) for the Apple II series.
I've come across this beastie:
EuroInterfaces 68000 INTEMEX AP-20 from a company called IBS COMPUTERTECHNIK
All the documentation (photocopied) is in German, which I only remember a little from middle school days. There are also disk for CP/M and Pascal - it appears it can be used as a floating point engine and also for 68K development.
Anyone know anything else about it, and maybe have English docs?
Also, I've attached a pick of a 2 card 68K system, 'DTACK Grande' - no info on that, or software.
EDIT: Steve Hirsch tells me what I thought was a DTACK Grande board is actually the ETC PDQ 68K system. Whoohoo!
Hello sfahey,
it´s correct, the card was manufactured by the German company IBS.
Unfortunatly they never have translated their stuff to english language.
I have put the entirre dtuff from IBS ( all of their cards and documentation )
up in my site. This card was able to do far more.... for example it was possible to run 68KCPM
on that card to....
here the link to the page related to the card in my site:
http://www.appleii-box.de/APPLE2/IBSKARTEN/appleboxAppleIIIBSAP20.htm
I´ve uploaded more than 600 pages to the site during the last weeks and it´s quite a hard task,
but all that 600 pages will be translated within the second half of this year...
i hope at least that i may solve that task within that period of time....
sincerely speedyG
Thanks Speedy - I guess I better brush up on mein Deutsch.
Sean,
These two cards are new to me.
Both look very interesting.
Steven
Hello sfahey,
that will be hard task.... unless you don´t try ro find someone for translation it might take a while....
as i explained i have shoveled up more than 500 pages of stuff and translation to english pages will
take quite a while because i am performing that translation task besides other tasks....
so till the pages will be availiable in english to might require up to one year of time waiting.....
the progress will be indicated by the add of the english flags to the contentpage...... those with
the Britflag are then availiable in english language too.....
but besides waiting for the translation some information should have been recognized yet:
with the card inserted you might be able to run cpm68K at the apple....
( quite similar like running cpm with a Z80 card inserted ) and by that you could use the
connected hardware of the apple with the "external cpu" similar the way that the z80 used the apple.
And i have some more stuff about that card too in the dungeons of my archive that will rise up in the next months.....
(including disks related to the card - it was one of the first cards at the apple II series that could be programmed
with plain c compiler...... ) 2 of that cards have been used in the 80´s in Munich at the university in the
astronomy and math labratory....
it indeed was in the 80´s one of the few possibilties to get the full scientific power of the 68000 processor to the fingertips of the apple user...
speedyG
Hallo together, I would like to implement the IBS AP 20 in my (currently unpublished while beta) Apple 65 Emulator project. I will get a card but I need some software for it. Does anybody has such a card and is able to make images from the Software on 140K Apple II Disks? I also need documentation for the card and if available from the 256 K Expansion Board AP25, so I will implement both. Please mail me at js@jsob.de
Meanwhile I implemented the card because I got the whole standard documentation. It runs CP/M, UCSD-Pascal IV, Forth, Chess Game, AppleSoft Floating Point Acceleration Routines, Ram Disk Software incl. using INTBASIC instead of a language card with the AP20. If anybody need something or has something for me to go further on withn this card, please let me know.
Very cool. I don't have the card, but I look forward to trying it in your emulator.