Re: Wall Defence game for Apple II

[drHirudo <drhirudo@gmail.com>]

On 24 Апр, 12:54, mmphosis <markwst...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I could have used the arrow keys, but I remember that the older Apple II models did not have left and right arrows as well, and Ctrl+H and Ctrl +U were used instead.
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> This computer
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> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=956&st=1
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> doesn't appear to have left and right arrow keys on
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> it's keyboard
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> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Pravetz_Imko_Keyboard_s1.jpg

The Imko and the Pravetz-82 computers, which we had at school, did not
had left and right arrow keys, so I assumed that the older Apple II
models, of which the bulgarian computers were almost exact clones,
also lack these keys. I stand corrected.

These computers were the reason I knew about the Ctrl+H and Ctrl+U
keys combinations. On the other hand, the Pravetz-8C, which I had at
home, had all the direction keys, plus F1 and F2 and upper and lower
case letters (Latin and Cyrillic, switchable with hardware switch). F1
and F2 were mapped to the Joystick buttons 1 and 2 - very handy for
pinball games and games with lots of shooting, where a friend can help
you with the shooting by pressing F1 on the keyboard.