Re: Access to IIgs features from BASIC with 65816 glue?

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Fri, 27 May 2005 19:28:27 GMT, Lyrical Nanoha
<LyricalNanoha@dosius.net> wrote:

>I've got a real bizarre idea I want to experiment with...
>
>I'm fairly familiar with the 6502 and quite familiar with the older Apples 
>but never was able to make use of the IIgs's additional features...
>
>I wonder, how hard it would be, to come up with a program to interface 
>between BASIC (using & commands) and the IIgs's 320x200 and 640x200 modes.
>
>I am thinking of doing some graphical stuff on the GS and only way I can 
>really interface to the computer at all is BASIC or very simple ASM. :(

As others have pointed out there are a number of ampersand routines
available for AppleSoft from various places.

However, if you are going to be working in BASIC why not use GSoft
BASIC?  There used to be a free version you could download that had
some limitations but it lets you do practically everything you can do
with AppleSoft but with lots more power and you get to use the Super
Hi-Res screen instead of just Hi-Res.

You can also do toolbox programming at a later date if you want to get
really fancy.

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