Re: Great news from Apple Computer themselves regarding manuals

[dcross1@nospam.home.com (David Cross)]

In article <coaxial-2311981119090001@dial22.pli.mb.ca>, coaxial@escape.ca 
says...
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>In article <73bvjs$120$1@clarknet.clark.net>, RON EVRY
><revry@shell.clark.net> wrote:
>> Does Apple's permission extend to the infamous 1978 "Red Book"?
>> This contained the ROM listing for the Apple IIe, the one and only time
>> Apple ever allowed something like that to be published....
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>Nitpick: How could the 1978 "Red Book" from Apple contain the ROM listing
>for the Apple IIe model.....since the Apple //e model was only first
>introduced in early 1983 ?
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>I suspect you meant to say "the ROM listing for the Apple ][ (or ][ 
Plus)".....

Aside from minor changes, the Apple ][+ Applesoft ROM is functionally identical 
to the //e ROM.

The only _major_ visible difference is in the cursor character change.

It is, however, possible to directly duplicate the KEYIN routine and get the 
famous "flashing block cursor" as it once existed on an Apple ][ :)