6.5) Can I attach an ISA card to my Atari?
Subject: 6.5) Can I attach an ISA card to my Atari?
ISA background from TechWeb,
http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=isa
ISA - Industry Standard Architecture. Pronounced "eye-suh."
An expansion bus formerly commonly used in PCs (but since phased-out in favor
of PCI). It accepts plug-in boards that control the sound, video display and
other peripherals.
Originally called the "AT bus," it was first used in the IBM AT, extending the
8-bit bus to 16 bits.
RoBu (Roland Buhler) of the Stuttgart ABBUC Regional Group has produced
project plans for an ISA-Bus Interface for Atari 800XL/130XE Computer, ARGS.
http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un55/Hardware/ISA-Interface/ReadME.html
Carsten Strotmann has released sourcecode showing how to access a Hercules
video card with the ISA-Bus Interface.
http://www.strotmann.de/twiki/bin/view/APG/PgmFardwDriverHerc
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