The Amazing "quikLoader" Card..............Bob Sander-Cederlof

Jim Sather, author of "Understanding the Apple II", has designed and programmed a great new plug-in.  It is basically a ROM card, but hold on to your hats!

The card has sockets for 8 EPROMs, and they can be any EPROM size from 2716 up through 27256.  That means the card can hold a up to 256 kilobytes!

The card comes loaded already with three 2764 devices, programmed with licensed copies of DOS 3.3, FID, COPYA, the quikLoad operating system, and possibly more.  I think Integer BASIC is on there too.  With DOS on the card, you can leave it off your disks.  You gain at least two tracks per disk this way.

The quikLoad operating system allows you to load any program from the card into RAM in a flash.  If you have an EPROM programmer that can burn 2764s or larger, you can put favorites like the S-C Macro Assembler and our word processor permanently there.  The programs don't even have to be modified, because they will be loaded into their normal RAM locations for execution.

You control the card by typing a control character along with RESET.  For example, ctrl-C RESET catalogs a disk; ctrl-H RESET runs "HELLO"; others boot a disk or enter the monitor.  Ctrl-Q RESET gives you a catalog of your quikLoader ROMs, in the form of a menu; a single keystroke then selects a program.

The board is compatible with Apple II, II Plus, and //e.  In a II Plus with a 16K RAM card, you may need to perform a slight modification to the RAM card as explained in the documentation.

The boards are being manufactured by Southern California Research Group (SCRG), P. O. Box 2231, Goleta, CA 93118.  Phone (805) 685-1931.  Their price is $179.50.  You can order them from us if you like, at $170 + shipping.

