The Apple II on a PC Card - Diamond Trackstar Oddware
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Exploring the Diamond Trackstar cards on LGR Oddware! Effectively an Apple 2 computer on an 8-bit ISA card, bringing near perfect compatibility to DOS PCs by slapping a whole computer inside of another computer. The fact that these were out during the heyday of each platform is wild, so let's test the 1984 Trackstar and 1989 Trackstar Plus in an IBM PC XT and PS/2 Model 30!
● LGR links: https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews https://www.twitter.com/LazyGameReviews https://www.facebook.com/LazyGameReviews
● Check out Brandon's Trackstar archive here: https://www.diskman.com/presents/trackstar/
● The reverse engineered Quapple project: https://github.com/schlae/quapple
● All background music licensed from: http://www.epidemicsound.com
00:00 An Oddware Introduction 00:34 The Diamond Trackstar 02:15 QuadRAM Quadlink 02:44 Diamond Computers / Multimedia 03:56 The 1984 Trackstar 05:15 Trackstar Version 2 05:50 Trackstar 128 06:38 Dirty yet fascinating Tandy 1000 SX 06:50 LAUSD, Model Technology Schools 07:42 Trackstar E 08:13 Trackstar Plus 09:08 Unboxing an OG Trackstar 10:17 Hardware installation 12:27 Testing the Trackstar 14:55 Running The Oregon Trail 16:20 Composite or RGB 17:15 MS-DOS and Apple II modes 19:53 File transfer utility program 21:47 Moon Patrol with Gravis Gamepad 23:31 Floppy Emu and CP/M 2.2 25:04 Apple floppy on an IBM drive 26:38 Installing the Plus card in a PS/2 27:33 Trackstar Plus usage 28:47 TrackStore floppy disk images 30:36 King's Quest III, double speed test 32:38 Trackstar Plus setup utility 34:07 Apple ProDOS hard disk volumes 35:54 so yeah this thing is awesome
#LGR #retro #apple #computer
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