The Apple II - Inovative Systems - FPE Card
This page was created: 1-27-97
This morning, I got some nice color scans of the Inovative FPE card as 17
Mil. color
jpeg original files, (front and back) from Paul Dunkel. My special thanks
and my
appreciation go to Paul for sending the scans as requested by me.
I then enhanced them with the Mac and converted them to 256 color gif files
also.
They are currently located in the 1WSW folder in the Ground archives, in the
FPE folder, if you care to check them out in their jpeg and gif (front
and back)
256 color format files. Be warned they are very high quality color scans
and
thus, they are rather large - in both jpeg and gif file and screen display
size.
Linked in for easy view and display below are much
smaller 256 color gif files - see the two graphics
that follow.
FPE card - front view
FPE card - back view
It's the very rare (but, buggy also) Inovative System FPE 'FloatingPoint
Engine' Math
card for the Apple II computer series, specifically useful for the IIe and
IIGS, but
reportedly functional also on the II and II+ models. I talked with the cards
designer,
manufacturer and sales agent in Conneticut, USA a couple of years back and
he told me,
there was only about 340 of them made and sold. I've longed for one of the
type of cards
and should advise all that read this document page to note a new and improved
Math
coprocessor card of this type is now being made available from the hardware
designer:
Andres Schmidt <- Click on this for ref.
text page with information on the FPE, FPU
and Number Cruncher (NC) card.
This 'NEW' Math coprocessor FPE card is again being offered for sale to
the public,
without the bugs in the hardware and software, that reportedly existed in
the old Inovative
Systems FPE Card - Rev. A card, as shown above in the front and back view
gif files.
I've enhanced and optimized both of the jpeg files for; color, clarity and
contrast,
depth and such. Then, I converted them with a Mac PPC and Debabalizer Pro
saving them as both jpeg and gif (256 color - dithered/optimized) formats.
These
formats and color palettes used with the conversions, should allow Apple
IIGS
users to view them on the IIGS, with most of the current gif and jpeg viewing
software.
I've already uploaded the gif and jpeg (256 color format) conversion files
to our
main Apple II site 'Ground' and now I've made them available from GS WorldView
via this document page - to display them and for you to download and use
them via any
web browser software system and platform, etc. - as you wish - without restrictions.
Thanks again to Paul Dunkel - for the great jpeg scans he sent me for my
conversion
and display efforts - to show the Apple II community via our ftp site and
the GS WorldView
web site.