qii@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Peter Van Vleet) (05/04/90)
Hello, I have just began to explore the wonderful world of ftp sites, and I was curious if anyone might be able to enlighten me on the fine art of uncompressing and exectracting files once I get them downloaded to my GS. Many thanks in advance, Peter Van Vleet qii@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
mhhaines@uokmax.uucp (Mark Howard Haines) (05/25/90)
I have have several very technical questions that I hope someone can help me with. I don't have access to Compuserve, so if someone doesn't know the answers to these questions, but would forward them to Compuserve, I would be most thankful. First let me describe exactly what I'm doing. I am creating a character set for an apple //e that will include the german characters (7 additional). I have already found how to burn the necessary ROM. Now I would like to make my own I/O routines so that the user need only execute a machine language routine and have special key presses access my character set. I have already made some progress, but I have several questions concerning the hardware and software alike. So here goes: 1) I would like to place the new characters in ROM so that they replace the mouse characters. I know where in the video ROM the mouse characters are, but I can't get the computer to display them. I've tried poking numbers directly to the video RAM, so it has to be a soft switch. Anyone know where in memory the soft switch is wired? 2) I have and old reference manual that has an assembly listing of the old apple ][+ autostart ROMs. Does anyone know a book or any source where I can get a hold of a listing of the revisions for he //e. I would also like technical descriptions and schematics of the //e. 3) I have already tried replacing the keyboard reading and screen writing routines by altering the soft pointers in the zero page. It works okay except I have some problems with PRODOS and the cursor. PRODOS will reset a portion of the keyboard read soft vector every time it calls its character out routine. This is the only reason right now that I replace the character out soft vector with my own routine. Does anyone know of a good technical reference on PRODOS which gets down to the actual code listings? 4) When I replace the standard PRODOS output routine with the vector that the 80 column card sets up when PRODOS is not in memory, something funny happens. The cursor changes and freezes in place. This leads me to believe that the cursor on the 80 column card is controled separately. Am I correct in this assumtion? If so, how do I control the cursor? Thanks in advance for all help. Like I said before anyone who wants to forward this to Compuserve, please feel free. Or if you already know the answers, please reply either in this news group or email to me at: mhhaines@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu I appoligize to the technical gurus out there for this. I use to be heavily into th apple // series years ago and am now getting back into them. If I hadn't left for so long, I would probably know much of what I have asked and would probably have a library of books containing the references I have mentioned. As it is, I have no idea right now where to find this information so I am here wasting band width on the net.
mhhaines@uokmax.uucp (Mark Howard Haines) (05/26/90)
>1) I would like to place the new characters in ROM so that they replace the > mouse characters. I know where in the video ROM the mouse characters are, > but I can't get the computer to display them. I've tried poking numbers > directly to the video RAM, so it has to be a soft switch. Anyone know where > in memory the soft switch is wired? >3) I have already tried replacing the keyboard reading and screen writing > routines by altering the soft pointers in the zero page. It works okay > except I have some problems with PRODOS and the cursor. PRODOS will > reset a portion of the keyboard read soft vector every time it calls its > character out routine. This is the only reason right now that I replace > the character out soft vector with my own routine. Does anyone know of > a good technical reference on PRODOS which gets down to the actual code > listings? Ooops....I messed up. I just checked and it turns out that there is a way to get the mouse characters to show by invoking the 80 column card. (Previously I was getting it to show all the characters in standard video mode, although I guess there's still a soft switch since the 80 column card has to get at those extra characters some how). I also ran into another problem. Seems there's something different in the two revisions of the //e mother boards I'm working with. One when I call the character out routine at $C307 works fine in displaying mouse characters. The other however filters them out (subtracts 64 if 63<character<128). So I guess I need to know the difference in motherboard revisions and how the 80 column card does it;s thing (i.e. anyone got source for the 80 col ROMs???)
misfit@trauma.guti.sld.ar (Martin Gil) (08/04/90)
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U49178@UICVM.UIC.EDU (DENYSE STURGES 996-2742) (10/02/90)
Novice here--I think I have joined the wrong list. Anyone know who con- centrates on HyperCard and HyperTalk? I'd appreciate the info, and then I'll move on!!
eldorado@ECN.PURDUE.EDU (David D Jansen) (11/06/90)
Keywords: usr, pr#2
Could some one give me some help with writing to ports 1 or 2 in
assembly? So far all I can do is PR#2, PR#0 and then it will allow me
to store characters in the data registers, 49304 and 49320. How do I go
about initializing the ports to read/write to them?
Could you tell me about how to use the USR() function? Where is the
parameter passed from BASIC get stored to access it from assembly? How
do you return a value from assembly to BASIC?
Is there a book that explains the BASIC ROMs that would stop me from
asking questions like I did above?
Just back for a visit.
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Purdue University | UUCP: {purdue, pur-ee}!en.ecn.purdue.edu!eldoradoWKF2298@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU (Wonko the Sane) (12/03/90)
HELP! I'm totally confused!?!?! I'm connected to you guys through the listserv at NDSUVM1, so like, I'm getting all this mail from Info-Apple at Apple.Com. Anyway, while out for Thanksgiving, my disk quota exceeded and I lost a lot of mail. No major problem. But after fixing the problem, I haven't been receiving any mail at all. At first I thought it was because my bounced mail was causing an error which got me suspended. I checked my status at listserv@ndsuvm1 and it said I was fine. Then I asked two people to issue a SERVE command just in case, but they said I was on the list. My conclusion was that my mail was probably shot back to INFO-APPLE itself. . . but there is no listserv for me to control. SO SOMEONE! HELP ME GET MY MAIL BACK. . . I MISS YOU GUYS! (sob sob) If anyone can figure out how I can get back. . . PLEASE. . . let me know. Thanks you all very much. Later, William K. Fry wkf2298@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
rsf@pro-applephelia.cts.com (Randy Fisher) (12/13/90)
Greetings. I inherited an Apple ][e with a 300bps modem. Other than some simple manuevers I know nothing about modems and such. I do know that I want a faster modem (1200 or 2400) but most that I've seen in stores are say "IBM compatable" . If anyone could provide me with a clue where to get a faster modem and software it would be appreciated. Also info on whether to get an internal or external. Remember...I'm new... Thanks. ---- ProLine: rsf@pro-applephelia Internet: rsf@pro-applephelia.cts.com UUCP: crash!pro-applephelia!rsf ARPA: crash!pro-applephelia!rsf@nosc.mil
tomk@pro-grouch.cts.com (Tom Kelly) (12/16/90)
In-Reply-To: message from rsf@pro-applephelia.cts.com Is your 300 baud modem external? If so then you should be able to use any other (faster) external modem. They generally all use a RS-232 interface. Are you using a Super Serial Card to run the modem? For more detailed info, send detailed questions to me via E-Mail. UUCP: crash!pro-grouch!tomk ARPA: crash!pro-grouch!tomk@nosc.mil
kiuchi@sumax.seattleu.edu (Usagi Yojimbo) (01/23/91)
Being a person who has learned programming from an apple computer, I am having a lot of difficulties in trying to program in the unix via vi editor. Questions are: 1)How do I do a for next loop in this language, ex. FOR A =1 TO 1000 :NEXT 2)How do I print the certain number's character string, ex CHR$(A) 3)How do I print variables, ex PRINT A Any help is appreciated a lot.. please help a member of the apple // ownership learn unix programming.. -- *Kevin Kame Kiuchi from the Half Shell and part of Rhemus Relivus******* *Comments or complaints to such absurdities: kiuchi@sumax.seattleu.edu* *Aliased as Usagi Yojimbo*********************************************** ************************** January 1991
unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) (01/24/91)
In article <2175@sumax.seattleu.edu> kiuchi@sumax.seattleu.edu (Usagi Yojimbo) writes: > > Being a person who has learned programming from an apple computer, I am >having a lot of difficulties in trying to program in the unix via vi editor. There is no such thing as pogramming "in the unix via vi editor"... vi is simply an editor... Like AppleWorks, AppleWriter, WordPerfect, etc... It's just an online "word processor" (although "editor" is more appropriate) Since you seem to be just starting vi also, I'd like to tell you that it DOES get better! Most people (including me) seem to HATE vi for a while, even months/years... But eventually you find out that it can do a HELL of a lot for you, and is actually quite nice... Although another UNIX editor, emacs, allegedly does it better, vi will autoindent for you when you're writing a program... Very handy... Now, I actually -like- vi. I certainly don't use it for actual writing of reports and stuff (I was actually very surprised yesterday when someone I know was using vi to write a report.. He used other tools also that are for use with laser printers) >Questions are: >1)How do I do a for next loop in this language, ex. FOR A =1 TO 1000 :NEXT WHAT language are you using? That's the main question that needs to be answered. The only thing that I can think of as being called "programming in unix" (without using a specific language name), would be programming shell scripts... >2)How do I print the certain number's character string, ex CHR$(A) >3)How do I print variables, ex PRINT A See the answer for #1! -- /Apple II(GS) Forever! unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu MAIL ME FOR INFO ABOUT CHEAP CDs\ \WRITE TO ORIGIN ABOUT ULTIMA VI //e and IIGS! Mail me for addresses, & info. /
aabenson@BALANCE.CS.MTU.EDU (01/25/91)
In reply to Unknown's reply to "kiuchi@sumax.seattleu.edu": Hey, Unknown... kiuchi wasn't the one confused. If you noticed all the headers, there was something about "Programming cshell stuff". That's what the writer was interested in. - Andrew.
ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) (01/25/91)
In article <2175@sumax.seattleu.edu> kiuchi@sumax.seattleu.edu (Usagi Yojimbo) writes: > > Being a person who has learned programming from an apple computer, I am >having a lot of difficulties in trying to program in the unix via vi editor. >Questions are: >1)How do I do a for next loop in this language, ex. FOR A =1 TO 1000 :NEXT >2)How do I print the certain number's character string, ex CHR$(A) >3)How do I print variables, ex PRINT A > >Any help is appreciated a lot.. please help a member of the apple // ownership >learn unix programming.. Usagi dude, Unix is an operating system, not a programming language... However, you can write programs in many languages (C, Pascal, Fortran are the main ones). If you want to find out about those languages, check out a good book on one of them. If you want to program the C-Shell, ask around on the other Unix nesgroups (forgot the names though...) >-- >*Kevin Kame Kiuchi from the Half Shell and part of Rhemus Relivus******* >*Comments or complaints to such absurdities: kiuchi@sumax.seattleu.edu* >*Aliased as Usagi Yojimbo*********************************************** >************************** January 1991 -- David Huang | Internet: ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | "My ganglion is stuck in UUCP: ...!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu!ifar355 | a piece of chewing gum!" America Online: DrWho29 |
fraenhawk@oak.circa.ufl.edu (02/05/91)
I'm new to the VAXes and was wondering how you use the files found in
comp.binaries.apple2 - what conversions are necessary. I have GS Shrinkit, but
I kept seeing something called BINscii mentioned. If it's necc. where is it?
Any help will be welcome, Thanks,
Davidfraenhawk@oak.circa.ufl.edu (David Isaacson) (02/20/91)
I have what'll probably a relatively simple question. I recieved mail from 2 people with copies of Binscii back when I originally asked. How do I reply to them? I'm on a VAX and when I'm in mail, I can't figure how to use the addresses. Plus I'll be lucky if this gets through. Every time I try to reply to a message I get into the editor, type it up, exi, and when Newsrdr asks if I'm ready to send I say yes. Then, instead of saying the message was posted, it gives me an error saying that my message was longer than "new text\". What does that mean? David
ag0514@leah.albany.edu (Andy Goldstein) (03/12/91)
oops.
gt1077c@prism.gatech.edu (gt1077c JONES,MARK ANTHONY) (03/21/91)
I am trying desperately to find out how to postnews on the comp.sys.apple2 bulletin, but I keep getting a not authorized message. How can I post news? Thanks a bunch! Mark A. Jones
BAUGY@HUJIVM1.BITNET (Gedaliahu Zilberberg) (04/21/91)
HELP
tnab0@isuvax.iastate.edu (ALLAN) (05/04/91)
Obviously, I 'm new to net-land, so I dunno if this is teh right place to ask
this question, but here I go anyway. Last summer, when my house flooded, I
lost a lot of my computer stuff (the machine is OK, I lost mainly software and
books...) Anyway, I have a CMS SCSI card, and I need to get the manual and
software for it (I need to do a low-level format, and most of the stuff out
there doesn't like the CMS card...) Anyway, is there an E-mail address out
there that I could get in touch with the CMS guys. Either that or a regulat
mail address...
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