ISEPIC
| One switch to rule them all. |
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| Designed by Chip Gracey |
ISEPIC (say "ice-pick") is an extraordinary hardware and software combination that is capable of copying virtually all memory-resident software regardless of the original protection scheme or storage medium. are the first few words on the manual.
And for once you can believe in what that sentence stated in 1985. Freezing programs is the sole purpose ISEPIC was created for and it does it pretty well. Commercially released in likely June 1985 it vanished very quickly again by the end of 1985. The manual has the name of the hard- and software designer written all over it and nowadays the website of Parallax Inc. has an article on their origins explaining how Ken 'Chip' Gracey started that company and what he did before:
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| Technical Info | |
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| RAM | 2 kbyte |
| Hardware features | 1 Switch |
| Manual | PDF: 16 pages - includes all necessary info PNG: 1 page - v1.1 Upgrade Note |
| CRT ID | 34 |
| Programming | |
| Control Registers | $FFF7 - enables Cart |
| $FFF8 - disables Cart | |
| Below text | |
These experiences quickly led to dismantling video game source code and household electronic hardware, and trying to use these devices for purposes other than originally intended. Hobby transformed into a business, and by the time he was a senior in high school Chip was running a small business called Innovative Software Engineering (ISE) from his bedroom. ISE made a software duplication hardware for the Commodore 64 computer called the ISEPIC (no relation to PICmicros). Within a year Chip sold 20,000 ISEPICs around the world, largely by word of mouth at local computer clubs and niche magazines.
| File:Xxx.png Run Issue 48, 12/1987 |
Notes
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Binaries
blablup.zip contains just the c64 binaries:
blablup.zip contains:
