From: sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: thanx from novice and few questions.
Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 08:40:50 GMT

In article <AALIeag0F8@smena.russia.msk.su> joe@smena.russia.msk.su writes:
>1. I have some doubts that I have ][e, when I turn it on, it shows something
>like Apple A AE. Any ideas?

A real IIe will display either "Apple //e" (enhanced ROMs) or "Apple ]["
(original ROMs).

>2. The char generator seems to be broken. The chip has 2 wires attached, and
>I have twice capital letter sets, and no one of small letters.

Sounds like someone did something funky to the character generator.
Is it the standard character-generator ROM (with Roman characters) or
is it a custom generator (altered, perhaps, to display Cyrillic
characters)?

>3. I can now read/write text files, but how to access all the others? Binary,
>for example?

Binary files are loaded in with BLOAD and saved with BSAVE.

>4. How can I access the devices? Maybe anybody has a list of port addresses?
>Where I can peek/poke with some result?

Depends on which cards you've installed.  The I/O setup in the Apple
II is a little bit hairy. :-)

>5. Why when I do HGR and then LINE 1,1,2,2 it types OUT OF MEMORY ERROR?

That second command doesn't sound like a BASIC command...but it should
come back with ?SYNTAX ERROR.  Try something like this:

HGR:HCOLOR=3:HPLOT 0,0 TO 279,159

That should put a solid diagonal line on-screen.

>Why lowest part of screen remain text mode?

That's the default for Hi-Res page 1.  If you use HGR2 to use page 2
instead, you'll get the full 280x192 graphics display.  You can also
POKE 49234,0 after HGR to view all of page 1.

>7. How to copy files and system in DOS 3.3?

Still using DOS 3.3...ick.  Don't know if it'd be legal to send ProDOS
8 to you...in any case, you can copy the system software under DOS 3.3
simply by formatting a disk; use INIT <filename> and a copy of DOS 3.3
will be put on the disk.  FID is a utility that will allow you to copy
files under DOS 3.3.

>8. How to I/O hexadecimals in BASIC? $d0 or D0H it doesn't understand.

BASIC normally deals with decimal numbers exclusively.  You can store
hexadecimal numbers in strings and create your own routines for base
conversion, input checking, etc.  The coding is relatively trivial.

>9. What is NOMON?

Under DOS 3.3, NOMON is the start of a command that turns off disk
monitoring.  It's used when working with text files.  Follow NOMON
with I and you won't see files as they're being read.  Follow it with
O and you won't see files as they're being written.  Follow it with C
and you won't see files as they're being EXEC'd.  The normal usage is
NOMONICO, which kills all three types of monitoring.  (The opposite,
of course, is MONICO.  It's all mainly a debugging feature.)

>10. Is there more than 65k of memory and how can I access it with PEEK?

If you have a memory card in the auxiliary slot, you have more than
64K.  Accessing the memory under DOS 3.3 is non-trivial, however.
ProDOS makes it a bit easier by configuring a 64K RAMdisk in auxiliary
memory.

>11. Can usual modem which I use in PC be attached, and how to manipulate?

Depends...if it's an external modem, just plug it into a serial card
and plug the serial card into your Apple.  If it's an
IBM-clone-internal modem, though, it won't work.

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