Has anyone out there heard of a Multi-Mac Apple ][ Clone, model MT-600? I
was digging along the back shelf in my basement and found one... it's been
there for quite some time (a friend abandoned it with me when I was still in
college).
It appears to be an unremarkable clone, c. mid-1983 (S/N 8306055, suggesting
to me a manufacturing date of June, 1983, which jibes with the chip dates).
Inside were two cards - a clone language card with a 4-pos DIP switch and
a clone dual disk card with PROMs labelled P5 and P6 (like a real Apple
Disk ][ card). The RAM is 8 4164s, the ROMs are a wad of 2732s. It booted
almost everything I threw at it except a "Castle Wolfenstein" disk that may
or may not be defective (I/O error on boot after loading the HELLO program).
I only bring it up because I have never seen nor heard of another one. The
usual Apple clones I'm familiar with are Lasers and Franklins. This is clearly
neither.
It was fun booting my box of Apple disks to see what came up. I threw at it
some unpublished software from a former employer - "Cross Swords", a game from
1983-1984 that pitted warriors in a fantasy setting against each other with
pre-programmed goals in a capture-the-flag scenario. It was mostly done when
the company folded following Reader's Digest abandoning the home software
market (they sold all of our titles, "Micro Mother Goose", "Alphabet Beasts
and Company" and "Micro Habitats", among others). I was most the C-64 guy
there, but I did Apple and BBC Acorn programming, too. We were almost
exclusively a 6502 shop. IBM games came at the end, but with CGA graphics,
our stuff looked better on the C-64 or Apple ][.
-ethan
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Received on Tue Oct 05 1999 - 23:36:11 BST