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Apple II
Technical Notes
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Developer Technical Support
#0: About Apple II Technical Notes November 1989
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Technical Note #0 (this document) accompanies each release of Apple II
Technical Notes. This release includes revisions to Apple IIGS Notes #25,
#53, and #67, GS/OS #1, and ProDOS 8 #17 and #24, new Notes for the Apple IIGS
(#71-#74) and AppleTalk #7, and an index to all released Apple II Technical
Notes. If there are any subjects which you would like to see treated in a
Technical Note (or if you have any questions about existing Technical Notes),
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developing Apple II hardware and software. The following pages list all Apple
II Technical Notes that have been released.
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Released Apple II Technical Notes November 1989
New ***
Revised *R*
Apple IIc
1 Mouse Differences On IIe and IIc 11/88
2 40-Column and Double High-Resolution Graphics 11/88
3 Foreign Language Keyboard Layouts 11/88
4 Dvorak Keyboard Layout 11/88
5 Memory Expansion on the Apple IIc 11/88
6 Buffering Blues 11/88
7 Existing Versions 11/88
8 Single-Sided 3.5" Media and the Apple IIc Plus 5/89
Apple IIe
1 Overview of the Apple IIe 11/88
2 Hardware Protocol for Doing DMA 11/88
3 Double High-Resolution Graphics 11/88
4 RDY line 11/88
5 /INH line 11/88
6 The Apple II Paddle Circuits 11/88
7 Interfaces--Serial, Parallel, and IEEE-488 11/88
8 Known Anomalies of Enhanced IIe ROMs 11/88
9 Switch Input Changes 11/88
Apple IIGS
1 How to Install Custom BRK and /NMI Handlers 11/88
2 Transforming I/O Subroutines for Use in "Native" Mode 11/88
3 Window Information Bar Use 11/88
4 Changing Graphics Modes in Mid-Application 11/88
5 Window and Menu Titles 11/88
6 QuickDraw II Pattern Data Structure 7/89
7 Halt Mechanism in IIGS SANE 11/88
8 Elems Functions in IIGS SANE 11/88
9 IIGS Sound Expansion Connector: Analog I/O Impedances 11/88
10 InvalRgn Twist 11/88
11 Ensoniq DOC Swap-Mode Anomaly 11/88
12 Tool Set Interdependencies 7/89
13 ROM 1.0 Modem Firmware Bug 11/88
14 Standard File Calls and GrafPort Records 11/88
15 InstallFont and Big Fonts 7/89
16 Notes on Background Printing 11/88
17 Application Memory Management & the MMStartUp User ID 11/88
18 Do-It-Yourself SCC Interrupts 11/88
19 Multichannel Output with Apple IIGS Note Synthesizer 11/88
20 Catalog of APW Language Numbers 7/89
21 DMA Compatibility for Expansion RAM 11/88
22 Proper Unloading of Dynamic Segments 11/88
23 Toolbox Use of DOC RAM 11/88
24 Apple IIGS Toolbox Reference Updates 11/88
*R* 25 Apple IIGS Firmware Reference Updates 11/89
26 ROM Revision Summary 9/89
27 Graphics Image File Formats 11/88
28 Interface Card Design Guidelines 11/88
29 Monochrome High-Resolution Mode 11/88
30 Apple IIGS Hardware Reference Updates 11/88
31 Redirecting Output in APW C 11/88
32 /INH Line Anomaly 11/88
33 ERRORDEATH Macro 11/88
34 Low-Level QuickDraw II Routines 1/89
35 Printer Driver Specifications 9/89
36 Port Driver Specifications 9/89
37 Free-Form Synthesizer Tips 11/88
38 List Controls in Dialog Boxes 7/89
39 Mega II Video Counters 7/89
40 VBL Signal 7/89
41 Font Family Numbers 11/88
42 Custom Windows 11/88
43 Undocumented Feature of CalcMenuSize 11/88
44 GetPenState and SetPenState Record Error 11/88
45 Parameters for GetFrameColor 9/89
46 DrawPicture Data Format 11/88
47 What SetDataSize Does 11/88
48 All About AlertWindow 7/89
49 Rebooting (Really) 1/89
50 Extended Serial Interface Error Handling 1/89
51 Reserving Memory for the Toolbox 1/89
52 Loading and Special Memory 7/89
*R* 53 Desk Accessories and Tools 11/89
54 MIDI Drivers 5/89
55 Avoiding ClrHeartBeat 7/89
56 Managing Dynamic Segments 7/89
57 Preventing Memory Compacting and Purging 7/89
58 Keyboard Modifiers Register Anomaly 7/89
59 Do Not Create Zero-Length Text Scraps 7/89
60 Care and Feeding of NewMenu 7/89
61 Window Title Handles 7/89
62 No Non-Solid Window Background Patterns 7/89
63 Master Color Values 7/89
64 Apple IIGS Installer and Installer Scripts 9/89
65 Control-^ is Harder Than It Looks 9/89
66 ExpressLoad Philosophy 9/89
*R* 67 LaserWriter Font Mapping 11/89
68 Tips for I/O Expansion Slot Card Design 9/89
69 The Ins and Outs of Slot Arbitration 9/89
70 Fast Graphics Hints 9/89
*** 71 CDA Tips and Techniques 11/89
*** 72 QuickDraw II Quirks 11/89
*** 73 Using User Tool Sets 11/89
*** 74 A Faster List Manager Draw Routine 11/89
Apple II Miscellaneous
1 80-Column Screen Dump 11/88
2 Apple II Family Identification Routines 2.1 11/88
3 Super Serial Card Firmware Bug 11/88
4 AppleWorks Keys 5/89
5 AppleWorks File Formats 5/89
6 IWM Port Description 11/88
7 Apple II Family Identification 11/88
8 Pascal 1.1 Firmware Protocol ID Bytes 11/88
9 AppleSoft Real Variable Storage 11/88
10 80-Column GetChar Routine 9/89
11 Examining the $C800 Space from AppleSoft 5/89
12 Apple II Firmware WAIT Routine 11/88
13 not used
14 Guidelines for Telecommunication Programs 7/89
AppleTalk
1 Identifying AppleTalk 7/89
2 ProDOS 8 Compatibility on the IIe and IIGS 11/88
3 Avoiding Remote Printer Time-Outs 9/89
4 Printing Through the Firmware 9/89
5 SPCommand Calls and Error $0702 7/89
6 Apple IIe Workstation Card Anomalies 7/89
*** 7 MLIACTV Flag and the IIe Workstation Card 11/89
GS/OS
*R* 1 Contents of System.Disk and System.Tools 11/89
2 GS/OS and the 80-Column Firmware 11/88
3 Pointers on Caching 11/88
4 A GS/OS State of Mind 7/89
5 Resource Fork Formats 7/89
6 Drivers and GS/OS Direct Page 7/89
7 Behavior of SET_DISKSW 7/89
8 Filenames With More Than CAPS and Numerals 7/89
ImageWriter
1 Custom Font Selection 11/88
Memory Expansion Card
1 Questions and Answers 11/88
Mouse
1 Interrupt Environment with the Mouse 11/88
2 Varying VBL Interrupt Rate 11/88
3 Mode Byte of the SetMouse Routine 11/88
4 Mouse Firmware Bug Affecting ServeMouse 11/88
5 Check on Mouse Firmware Card 11/88
6 MouseText Characters 1/89
7 Mouse Clamping 11/88
Pascal
4 Pascal Declarations & Directory Structure 11/88
10 Configuration and Use of Pascal Run-Time Systems 11/88
12 Disk Formatter Routine 11/88
14 Apple Pascal 1.3 TREESEARCH and IDSEARCH 11/88
15 Apple II Pascal SHORTGRAPHICS Module 11/88
16 Driver to Have Two Volumes on One 3.5" Disk 11/88
ProDOS 8
1 The GETLN Buffer and a ProDOS Clock Card 11/88
2 Porting DOS 3.3 Programs to ProDOS and BASIC.SYSTEM 11/88
3 Device Search, Identification, and Driver Conventions 11/88
4 I/O Redirection in DOS and ProDOS 11/88
5 ProDOS Block Device Formatting 11/88
6 Attaching External Commands to BASIC.SYSTEM 11/88
7 Starting and Quitting Interpreter Conventions 11/88
8 Dealing with /RAM 11/88
9 Buffer Management Using BASIC.SYSTEM 11/88
10 Installing Clock Driver Routines 11/88
11 The ProDOS 8 MACHID Byte 11/88
12 Interrupt Handling 11/88
13 Double High-Resolution Graphics Files 11/88
14 Selector and Dispatcher Conventions 11/88
15 How ProDOS 8 Treats Slot 3 11/88
16 How to Format a ProDOS Disk Device 11/88
*R* 17 Recursive ProDOS Catalog Routine 11/89
18 /RAM Memory Map 11/88
19 File Auxiliary Type Assignment 11/88
20 Mirrored Devices and SmartPort 11/88
21 Identifying ProDOS Devices 7/89
22 Don't Put Parameter Blocks on Zero Page 7/89
23 ProDOS 8 Changes and Minutia 7/89
*R* 24 BASIC.SYSTEM Revisions 11/89
25 Non-Standard Storage Types 7/89
SmartPort
1 SmartPort Introduction 11/88
2 SmartPort Calls Updated 9/89
3 SmartPort Bus Architecture 11/88
4 SmartPort Device Types 11/88
5 SCSI SmartPort Control Call Changes 1/89
6 Apple IIGS SmartPort Errata 11/88
7 SmartPort Subtype Codes 11/88
8 SmartPort Packets 5/89
UniDisk 3.5
1 UniDisk 3.5 Internals 11/88
2 UniDisk 3.5 ID Bytes 11/88
3 STATUS Call Bug 11/88
4 Accessing Macintosh Disks 11/88
5 Architectural Differences Between 3.5" Drives 11/88
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