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 WarpSpeed Manual.txt
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.

WarpSpeed Advert

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

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

The WarpSpeed Source Code (originally found at iAN CooGs' site) remains separated from the above. If you get this to assemble let us know please. :)

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
• Mayhem64 has a passage on WarpSpeed