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== [[Wantlist|Missing]]==
== [[Wantlist|Missing]]==


* ISEPIC Schematics


== Binaries ==
== Binaries ==


blablup.zip contains just the c64 binaries:
blablup.zip contains just the c64 binaries:
* Starpoints standard ''ISEPIC'' program which includes all the functionality (''operating system'' and tools)
* XX De-Froster/Anti-ISEPICker/Onefile generators
* YY Anti-ISEPIC Demos
* A german ISEPICed manual for ISEPIC and ISEmon by SCA (Swiss Cracking Asses)




blablup.zip contains:
blablup.zip contains:


* ISEPIC Manual Scan
* all of the above
* ISEPIC Manual Scan (one PDF file)
* [[Isepic_V1.0_Manual_Project64.txt|Isepic Manual Project64 Text]]
* [[Isepic_V1.0_Manual_Project64.txt|Isepic Manual Project64 Text]]
* ISEPIC fotos from [http://www.retroport.de retroport.de] and [http://atariguide.biz AtariGuide]
* Datasheets





Revision as of 01:32, 13 March 2010


One switch to rule them all.
ISEPIC
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.

File:Xxxx.gif
ISEPIC Screenshots
Technical Info
RAM 2 kbyte
Hardware features 1 Switch
Manual PDF: 11 pages -
PNG: 1 page - v1.1 Upgrade Note
CRT ID 34
Programming
Below text

Commercially distributed by Starpoint Software 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:

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.


ISEPIC Adverts
ISEPIC Advert v1
'To crack or to back up. That IS the question these two adverts cover.
ISEPIC Advert v2


Notes

Missing

  • ISEPIC Schematics

Binaries

blablup.zip contains just the c64 binaries:

  • Starpoints standard ISEPIC program which includes all the functionality (operating system and tools)
  • XX De-Froster/Anti-ISEPICker/Onefile generators
  • YY Anti-ISEPIC Demos
  • A german ISEPICed manual for ISEPIC and ISEmon by SCA (Swiss Cracking Asses)


blablup.zip contains:


Trivia

Weblinks

ISEPIC at CSDb