Stephen Shaw wrote:
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 07:57:54 -0800, Wayne Stewart wrote:
It's used to provide interrupts for the GEOS software in systems that
doesn't have a mouse card. That's the only time you'd ever need the
card and then only if you have no mouse card or equivalent.
I have one and I saw another in a local thrift store a short while back. I
was tempted in that I suspect that they aren't super common but
passed because I suspect no one would actually ever need to
use it.
Wayne
I don't know it might be quite fun to tinker with GEOS. Was it as good as the
advertising blurb in various Apple II magazines at the time?
I'm not sure because I didn't use it very long because it's one major drawback,
(copy protection) out shone all it's good points, or at least in the versions I
have.
It came on a copy protected disk that let you install it on a hard drive but it
wouldn't boot off that hard drive unless the original floppy was in the disk
drive.
The annoyance of having to keep that floppy in the drive plus the slowdown
while the computer checks the floppy drive caused me to dump the program
very quickly.
Be great if someone knows about a version without this copy protection or a
patch to defeat it.
Wayne