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2019-06-27 12:01:30 UTC
0.210 fixed a problem where the Rev C SCSI Card firmware would wait 60 seconds before booting the HDD if a CD-ROM drive with no disc was present. I haven't quite worked out CD audio yet.
0.211 expands our emulation of the China Education Computer to all known models, and we even got some Chinese-language software!
For those who don't know, the CEC lineup was a series of hardware //e clones, but jam-packed with extra ROMs. The entire aux bank (which works by the usual //e softswitches) is ROM instead of RAM, so 128K Apple II software doesn't work and there's no 80-column or double-res modes. Beyond that, they have even more additional ROM banked in using other mechanisms. This additional ROM contains several sizes of hi-res Chinese character fonts plus a complete Logo interpreter with turtle graphics.
The CEC's disks are Disk II compatible but officially support 40 tracks instead of it being a hack that worked most of the time like on the Disk II.
This is a really neat window into a significant II clone most of us never saw.
0.211 expands our emulation of the China Education Computer to all known models, and we even got some Chinese-language software!
For those who don't know, the CEC lineup was a series of hardware //e clones, but jam-packed with extra ROMs. The entire aux bank (which works by the usual //e softswitches) is ROM instead of RAM, so 128K Apple II software doesn't work and there's no 80-column or double-res modes. Beyond that, they have even more additional ROM banked in using other mechanisms. This additional ROM contains several sizes of hi-res Chinese character fonts plus a complete Logo interpreter with turtle graphics.
The CEC's disks are Disk II compatible but officially support 40 tracks instead of it being a hack that worked most of the time like on the Disk II.
This is a really neat window into a significant II clone most of us never saw.