binder@fizbin.DEC.COM (Popular culture is an oxymoron.) (02/16/88)
The PCPI Applicard's driver set includes one called FAST2E80, which was
intended to provide much-improved screen handling on an Apple //e.
FAST2E80 does not handle an Enhanced //e properly, because it invokes the
"alternate" inverse uppercase character set that was replaced by MouseText
in the Enhanced //e. Vanilla programs are fine, but WordStar (for example)
displays the famous "MouseText garbage" for inverse uppercase.
The Enhanced //e has faster screen handling than the original version; in
fact, it's faster than FAST2E80 gives. So I should just be able to gen a
driver set without this driver, right? Wrong. Most vanilla CP/M stuff
seems to run all right without FAST2E80, but WordStar doesn't - every time
I strike the DELETE key, everything below the cursor moves *down* a line.
That means that WordStar can't be run on an Applicard system in an Enhanced
//e. Argh!
Does anyone know of a patch to FAST2E80 to make it select the *right*
inverse uppercase character set? Or is there something in the setup
options for installing the driver?
Thanks,
Dick Binder (The Stainless Steel Rat)
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