Re: 80 column (videx) card on apple ][ plus & lower case letters

[WK2 <www_kk2@yahoo.com>]

Thanks.  CTRL-A worked!

And thanks everyone for your suggestions and input.  What I wanted to
do was:
10 PRINT "Hello"
-- lower cases as a string, not as commands or basic statements.

The Apple computer I've got already have the keyboard mod, but I read
that that mod is only supported by certain software.




On Aug 14, 11:09 pm, mdj <mdj....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 15, 12:49 pm, David Schmenk <dschm...@YUCH.gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > With the Videx board, CTRL-A acts like a CAPS LOCK when in 80-column
> > mode (PR#3).  If you add the shift wire mode, then the SHIFT key works
> > like it should.  I don't think you can type BASIC keywords in lowercase.
>
> You can't. Only on machines with enhanced firmware does the Applesoft
> tokeniser accept keywords case insensitively.
>
> On the unenhanced IIe, <ESC>-<CTRL-R> rigged GETCHAR to uppercasify
> anything not between double quotes, but in the later firmwares this
> feature is superfluous.
>
> Of course, adventurous people can (and did) modify the firmware
> themselves to get friendlier behaviour on the older machines.
>
> Matt