CardCat 1.94 Released for the Apple II Series

Posted by: A.P.P.L.E. Date: June 5, 2026 0 Likes 1 Views

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.
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