WarpSpeed
 WarpSpeed Screenshot | |
| Technical Info | |
|---|---|
| ROM | 16 kbyte |
| RAM | None |
| Hardware features | 1 Button Reset 1 Switch C64/C128 |
| Manual | PDF: WarpSpeed Manual PDF: WarpSpeed Manual with Schematics |
| CRT ID | 16 |
WarpSpeed created by the Alien Technology Group and distributed by Cinemaware became available in early 1988 and was pretty late on the general release already. All the reviews we found are dated late 1988 which might have humiliated it even further when being compared to other cartridges at that time. WarpSpeed has a switch to allow it to be used in C128 mode and there were two ROM versions found so far. The manual thanks the Jason Ranheim company who made the Capture cartridge - likely for support on the wiring mess up which requires a decoder to translate a raw eprom dump to a working C64 binary.
The advertising was especially boring since it was always the same advert on all magazines.
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Functionality
- Fast serial I/O (1541, 1571 and with WarpSpeed v2 also for 1581 floppy disk drives)
- DOS wedge
- Monitor (Pi-sign)
- File and disk copier
- Disk sector editor
- Utility commands using arrow up - allowing to kill fastload and OLD
Cloning
Creating you own WarpSpeed cartridge is detailed at https://github.com/SukkoPera/OpenC64WarpSpeed
Binaries
Cartridge_Speeder_all_rr.c64.org.rar contains:
- WarpSpeed .raw eprom dumps from iAN CooGs' site
- WarpSpeed decoder for raw dumps from iAN CooGs' site
- WarpSpeed v1 .bin and converted .crt
- WarpSpeed v2 .bin and converted .crt
- WarpSpeed source code reworked to assemble with Merlin128 by Lord Crass
- PDF: WarpSpeed Manual
- PDF: WarpSpeed Manual with Schematics
- WarpSpeed Manual.txt
- WarpSpeed Schematics
- High resolution images of the WarpSpeed board
- Checkout of https://github.com/SukkoPera/OpenC64WarpSpeed
The WarpSpeed Source Code (originally found at iAN CooGs' site) remains separated from the above. Lord Crass' version working with Merlin128 is included instead.
Weblinks
- WarpSpeed decoder and .raw dumps of v1 and v2 hosted by iAN CooG
- WarpSpeed sources hosted by iAN CooG
- Multi Easy by Lord Crass at CSDb contains an Easyflash3 version of WarpSpeed
- obliterator918's blog post states that WarpSpeed is nice
- Mayhem64 has a passage on WarpSpeed
