Trackstar - Apple II clone on a PC ISA card

[acgs]

Fun [?] fact: It's a clone of my very own Quadlink card, which I'd lent to him.

A small world after all! Please lend him one of your Trackstars. I'd love to have one of those!

 

[DeathAdderSF]

Please lend him one of your Trackstars.

If the opportunity arises, I gladly will.

 

[ajacocks]

Nice work @DeathAdderSF !

- Alex

 

[DeathAdderSF]

LGR upped a neato vid about the Trackstar cards. Check it out if you're interested in seeing everything these babies can do!

 

[mudmin]

I just wanted to say that I appreciate your site so much. I have a trackstar 128 and the info has been amazing.

 

[DeathAdderSF]

I just wanted to say that I appreciate your site so much. I have a trackstar 128 and the info has been amazing.

Thank you! I'm glad you find the website useful.

 

[george]

The web site would have been much more useful had some of these cards been available for purchase but most of them are literally swallowed instantly when they popup by a few collectors and many parasitic resellers and for ridiculous prices. Thus nowadays no further development, support and hacking could be expected. One would prefer to use an ordinary apple2 or a clone instead.

 

[shirsch]

The Quadram Quadlink board was thoroughly reverse-engineered and can be built from scratch nowadays. I put one together last year and it works a treat.

GitHub - schlae/quapple: Quadlink clone turns your ancient IBM PC into an Apple ][

Quadlink clone turns your ancient IBM PC into an Apple ][ - GitHub - schlae/quapple: Quadlink clone turns your ancient IBM PC into an Apple ][

github.com

 

[keenerb]

I do have a PCB file available for the trackstar floppy adapter I designed a few years ago, for people with a card and no floppy interface card. I'll dig it out and upload it in case someone finds it helpful.

 

[acgs]

I'll dig it out and upload it in case someone finds it helpful.

That would be great. Thanks!

 

[keenerb]

I found my project on oshpark but I THINK this has a problem, the trackstar connector had to be populated from the back (or something like that.) Hopefully I have the original project files somewhere.

 

[DeathAdderSF]

Just a heads up y'all, I've listed the bulk of my Trackstar collection on ePay...

Check out Brandon's eBay stuffs!

I'm a "research collector" and "collect to use" kind of guy; everything I listed has outlived its purpose for me, thus it's all better off in someone else's hands. So if you're interested in owning & trying out one of these cool gizmos, here's a fab opportunity - as they don't often pop up for sale, and when they do, the sellers are generally greedy bastards.

 

[shirsch]

Fun to look at, but all the hardware will certainly get bid up past what I'm able to offer. I'll grab some popcorn and watch

 

[Al Kossow]

Psychotic Game Collector $$$ ahead!