Re: Student publishes 800-page Apple II computer manual

[D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com>]

BLuRry wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 4:21:03 AM UTC-6, sicklittlemonkey wrote:
>> Kudos to David. It's a real accomplishment.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> BTW, I hope the book finally corrects the store double-access myth (for
>> soft-switches) that seemed to make it into all the Apple manuals.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Nick.
> 
> Was it a myth?  Glad I was too lazy to implement it that way in Jace.  ;-)
>
> The only double-access method that seems credible is the way which you
> change RGB modes between mixed/bw/color.

Not exactly. In Appendix C, on page 643, I say that PEEK makes one access,
and POKE makes two. I recall this is because these statements in Applesoft
use an indexed addressing mode.


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