Re: 8296 Execudesk disk

From: Robin Harbron (macbeth_at_tbaytel.net)
Date: 1998-09-29 01:25:37

Andre Fachat wrote:
> So you need special ROMs for Execudesk. I guess no one
> has them....?

I don't - this makes me think, however.  I know I've passed
up at least one PET/CBM at the thrift store, figuring I
already have 3, and it never once occurred to me that
perhaps some of these machines have special stuff *inside* -
say, Execu-Desk ROMs or 64k RAM expansion boards??? :/

I usually have a set of screwdrivers in the car with me -
I'll have to start making use of them :)

> There is not, by any chance, a schematic for the 64k add-on
> board?

Nope, just two fairly nice photographs.
 
> > The CBM Expansion Memory Board User's Guide - about
> > adding 64k of RAM to your 8032, essentially.  Inside

> Could you scan that document?

Yup - what type of files?  And should I email them to
you?  .pcx are what it defaults to.  I don't have
software for OCR though - I'd just be using the scanner
at work (after hours ;)...

> > And finally, about a 40 page booklet which is an
> > assembly listing of "ADD-ON-MON", a 64k-add-on
> > monitor - basically seems to be a monitor to
> > allow you to use the extra 64k.
> 
> Oops. I remember having seen that already. Ruud, you sent
> me a copy of it, right? But I don't think it was 40 pages.

I took a better look at that booklet - it's about 60 pages,
the first 30 of which are the source to ADD-ON-MON.  Then
there's an 8 page ADD-ON LOADER program, to load files
into extra mem.  Then 18 pages or so of source for
EXPANDED BASIC, which seems to give BASIC 4.0 some
use of the extra RAM.
-- 
Robin Harbron    macbeth@tbaytel.net
   http://www.tbaytel.net/macbeth


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