Re: Wall Defence game for Apple II

[sicklittlemonkey <nick.westgate@gmail.com>]

On Apr 25, 6:25 am, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@garberstreet.com> wrote:
> "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote in messaget4ydnXoSQamaqE7WnZ2dnUVZ_jadnZ2d@giganews.com">news:t4ydnXoSQamaqE7WnZ2dnUVZ_jadnZ2d@giganews.com...
> > It's hard to tell what those strange-colored keys are, but, in any case, it's not an actual Apple computer--its keyboard is *very*
> > non-standard.

It's the Bulgarian Pravetz clone that AppleWin emulates, and what the
author of the Wall Defence game grew up using.

One of the keys is a Latin/Cyrillic toggle.

> Which is the reason for the clone's page saying "almost 100% compatible".
>
> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=956

There are other differences: in the firmware ROMs and character ROMs;
some softswitch differences for detecting Latin/Cyrillic status. Also
I suspect the video scanner might be different based on some debugging
I did of a Bulgarian game.

Cheers,
Nick.