Flash Attack! (was Re: Analog modem emulator?)

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On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Ethan Dicks wrote:

> > 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

We did run it on original chiclet-key PETs.  I now remember Larry saying
it wouldn't work on the newer PETs, which is why I had to borrow one of
his.  I'll have to check memory requirements again.  I think it is
probably stamped on the tape.

> 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

Right, and the article also described how to make the cable.

> 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.

Neat.

> > 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.

Right.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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