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by js2 1025 days ago
I had a Wildcard or maybe Wildcard 2. It would snapshot memory and could save it to a disk along with a bootstrap routine (as I recall) to make the disk bootable.

http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/Apple%20II%20Documentation%20Pr...

Demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKDiDtk-62o

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My friend had one too. And it did as you said, basically dumped memory to disk and made it bootable. It had a wire with a red button that came out of the case.

We used it for a couple games when one of us had a bought copy and one of the various copy programs didn’t work (I had a disk full of them being young and not having enough knowledge to crack on my own. )

Worked well for arcade games. Didn’t work well for games that loaded more stuff from disk..