Re: Apple lle and BASIC

[Osgeld <osgeld@cheesefactory.us>]

you have to keep an eye out for proper apple color displays, otherwise
most generic monitors at the time are about as good as a TV today,and
yea apple II's support color, all the monochrome monitor does is
ignore the color burst signal so its already there and in use you just
dont see it.

on that note though color is sometimes crap, it kind of depends on
what your hooking it in to, some do color text and graphics fine ok
enough, some make text unreadable, none do as well on text as the mono
screens (IMO but I have not seen every possible screen out there) I
have the best luck with a TV tuner card in a PC, but my //c is also
sitting on the same desk, old "computer monitors" from other computers
do pretty decent too but they are old and might not get you far before
another repair

as far as your other question, sometimes sorta... a lot of the basic's
on 8 bit computers were done by microsoft, so if your program just
stayed inside the bare minimum functions of basic you could get them
to run, but these were very basic text only type programs, anything
that acted on the hardware would have to be re-written, for example a
apple // does not have a SID music chip from a C64 in it nor a 16 bit
cpu and EGA from a 286

On Mar 26, 12:41 pm, "Bettablue" <bettab...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks everyone.   I'm sure the information you gave me so far is
> invaluable.  I can't wait for my best friend to move back to Vegas so we can
> sit and play with my vintage computers like we did as teenagers.  It was a
> great bonding experience for us wannabe nerds.
>
> I have the computer in my den right now.  It's a thing of beauty!  Over
> engineering was art form back then and the ability to add a specific card to
> these computers makes add-ons so simple.  As far as installed cards, all it
> contains now is the memory module, floppy and video controller cards.  I
> heard something to the effect that Apple lle's had a color adapter already
> built in, but the monitor that shipped is only a monochrome.  If this is
> true, I would love to get an original color display for it.  I know all I
> have to to find out, is connect it to a TV set , but that isn't the easiest
> thing for me to do.  I only have one good arm and the other I need to
> control my power wheelchair.  It's funny that the display went out the
> moment we started writing some small test code.  There was no smoke, or any
> indication that there was anything going wrong.  It was working fine one
> second, and the next, it went blank.  The display had no power at all.  I
> suspect an internal fuse.
>
> I'm going to try to open the monitor to check the fuse.  If that's not the
> cause of the problem I will be in the market for someone to either repair or
> replace my current one.  If the lle does have a color video controller, I'll
> definitely want a color display.
>
> I have another question though.  Is Apple BASIC compatible with programs
> written with another version of BASIC?  IE, can I write a program on a PC of
> the same era and use on my lle?  There are a lot of programs I have in Apple
> BASIC that I want to run on my IBM 5150 too.