CardCat 1.94 Released for the Apple II Series

Card Cat 1.94 is now available at: https://henrylowe.net/card-cat/

New card detections

Card Cat now detects a number of additional cards, including:

• A2RetroNet / A2Pico
• Apple High-Speed SCSI
• Apple II Graphics Tablet Interface
• Applied Engineering PC Transporter
• CPS-Laser Universal Disk Controller
• Epson APL Parallel Printer
• FujiNet
• GR32 Adaptive Firmware
• PCPI Applicard
• SoftSP
• Songtai Chinese System
• TYMAC PPC-100 Parallel Printer Interface
• XDrive

System and firmware detection improvements

• Identifies the built-in 80-column display hardware on the Apple IIe and IIc.
• Identifies the slot containing the startup disk, displayed as -N-, where N is the slot number.
• Improves detection of non-firmware cards installed in slot 3 on the Apple IIe.
• Adds identification of Laser 128 card firmware.

Display and formatting improvements

• Standardizes memory and storage size units using KB, MB, and GB.
• Fixes various UI glitches.
• Adds a brief startup reminder that Control-A toggles between the two halves of a virtual 80-column display on 40-column systems.

Reliability fixes

• Fixes a bug that could crash the app on computers using a 40-column display.

Preliminary SmartPort support

Card Cat 1.94 adds preliminary support for SmartPort device detection:

• Probes for devices attached to SmartPort-enabled cards.
• Displays the number of attached SmartPort devices and the first attached device inline with the card name.
• Adds a SmartPort menu command when a SmartPort-enabled card is installed.
• The SmartPort command displays a full-screen table of all SmartPort-enabled cards and the first two connected devices.