Re: Applesoft Basic

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

greg@apple2.com wrote:

:> Actually, I was trying the, "CAT" command on an Apple III via it's Apple IIe
:> emulation mode. It kept getting, "Syntax error". This looked like a basic
:> prompt to me so I wrote a quick basic program saying my name 10 times on the
:> screen and that worked fine. For some reason the disk commands just don't
:> work...

: Hmm, does an Apple III in IIe compatibility mode still use SOS as its disk
: operating system and require its commands?

Think about that for a second. Would it make any sense for the emulator
to use the III's OS? It would hardly be emulation if you had to use SOS
to run II software now would it.

This is something Nathan could never grasp when he would whine and carry on
about how II software running in emulation mode couldn't use lowercase, 
extended memory, or a ProFile on an Apple III. If you use stuff that the 
original system didn't have, it ain't emulating the original system. A ][
plus with 48K was the prevalent Apple II during the III era, so that's what
II emulation gives you. Actually they let you choose between integer and
Applesoft so in effect you choose a 48K ][ or a 48K ][ plus.

As far as the original poster's question goes, CAT is a ProDOS BASIC command.
I'd bet my Apple III that he was using DOS, which doesn't know a CAT from a
dog. You have to do CATALOG with DOS.
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