Analog modem emulator?

[Ethan Dicks]

On 8/5/05, Bryan Pope <bpope at wordstock.com> wrote:
> How much memory does Flash Attack! require?

8K?  If not, 16K should work.

> Do you know if it will work on all the PETs?

I don't remember what ROMs it was for, but it is old enough that it
was probably for BASIC 2.0 ROMs (not original chicklet-key PETs, and
not 4032s and 8032s).   There may or may not be a BASIC 4.0 version. 
I never owned the program, but I did have a PET back in those days,
and the article in Byte describing the game.  Later, I hooked up my
PET to my new C-64 and invented my own version of the cable and the
byte primitives.  I didn't have a disk drive or a serial port on the
PET, so it was a great way to move data between the two machines.

> Is it possible to hookup more then two PETs at a time?

No.  It uses a user-port-to-user-port cable.  The user port doesn't
use multi-drop or open-collector buffers, so you can only have one
machine on each end of the wire.

Theoretically, one could design a ring structure to hook A to B, B to
C, and C to A, then invent some sort of token passing mechanism, but
the Flash Attack cable is strictly A to B.

-ethan