a228arig@cdfb.utoronto.UUCP (02/07/87)
> Question: Which other 80 column boards use the game paddle wires to shift key > trick? Also I have an hitachi monitor that the Viewmaster 80 didn't seem t > like, and there is no such thing as a vertical size control. Also my monitor > has various ominous notes about there being no user-serviceable parts. > Anyone else happy with their 80 column board (this is for a II+) and + especially > one with more memory, and extra especially one that will make Appleworks and > the more common terminal pgms work right. As far as I know, the "shift-key mod" is 80 column card independent. That is to say that it doesn't matter which 80 column card you have, or even whether you have one or not. 80 col. cards for the //+ often act strange, but I am pretty happy with my Videx clone. I bought it used, it has no soft-switch, so I made my own hard-switch, but it's not too big a hassle. I have found though, that different software behaves differently with this card... for example, DCOM makes the display a much higher contrast than normal, and it was that "whine" that J. Hayes talked about a while back. (by the way, his "bug fix" didn't work for me. It worked better the way it originally was.) It also "over-scans" near the bottom of the screen, or I had to adjust my vertical size. (My monitor is an Apple monitor ///). Now that I've adjusted the size so that I can see the whole screen, the top characters are much shorter than the rest of the characters on the screen. It looks un-linear (illinear?), but I can live with it. Softerm 1.1 does something different. It actually overscans horizontally. So, the leftmost and rightmost characters arepartially cut off. Using Magic Window II or Appleworks, (using the Videx preboot), everything appears "normal". By normal I mean the way I see the screen if I do a PR#3, in respect to character size, contrast, whine, etc. I hope this helps... --Tak Ariga P.S. I haven't gotten info-apple news in a long time... is there a snag somewhere? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: {utzoo, decvax, ihnp4, cbosgd, utcsri, mnetor}!utcs!utcdfa!a228arig ARPAnet: a228arig%cdfa.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net CSnet: a228arig%cdfa.toronto.edu == University of Toronto -- Toronto, Canada == -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
MARK@ISIS.MIT.EDU (Mark Kriegsman / VAX Resource Center) (02/08/88)
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HAMP::MKRIEG H. A. U. G. Notes 2-APR-1987 22:10
Note 4.0 -< How to Make the SHIFT-KEY Mod. >- No responses
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This is for a ][ or a ][+, dunno what else.
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^^^ BACK OF APPLE ^^^ +-----+
I: :I
I: :I Game
I: :I Connector
I: :I
+-----+
+---+ +---+ +---+
=! != =! != =! != <-- some random 16-pin
<-- This way =! != =! != =! != chips
to 6502 =! != =! != =! !=
=! != =! != =! != <-- CONNECT WIRE TO
+---+ +---+ +---+ LOWER-RIGHT HAND
PIN!!!
II
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ II ^ ^
\ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ II \ / \ / \
v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v II v v v
II
II
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! <-- CONNECT WIRE
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ TO SECOND PIN
! ! FROM RIGHT!!!
! Keyboard piggyback board !
(probably has more pins than shown.)
vvv FRONT OF APPLE vvv
Or, in English, for those of you who can't read pictures:
Connect one end of the wire to the second pin from then right on the
connector between the keyboard itself and the "keyboard piggyback board".
Connect the other end to the right-frontmost pin on the chip that is
directly forward of the game connector.
Mark Kriegsman, 4-87. CAVEAT HACKORgmw8868@fedeva.UUCP (Mitch Wood) (02/16/88)
What exactly is the Shift-Key-Mod for? I must have missed an earlier discussion. Also I have paddle controllers for ][+ but one of the pins is broken off, and they dont work right since. How can this be fixed easily? Mitch -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! Mitch Wood @ FEDERAL EXPRESS Memphis, TN | Fill in the .signature ! ! ..!gatech!emcard!fedeva!gmw8868 | "____________________________" ! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
jim@pro-nebulous.UUCP (System Administrator) (11/08/89)
o;Does anyone know the command to make Applesoft basic recognise the II+ shift key mod? Jim