Re: Apple II Interrupt card

[Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com>]

Default wrote:
> This card counts the VBL signal in a //e and generated timing interupts.
>
> This was required to allow the computer to determine where the mouse is 
> on the screen, even if you don't have a mouse.  It was noted in the GEOS 
> documentation that the card was not needed if you had a IIc or a IIe 
> with a mouse card.  My later copy of GEOS came with a mouse.
>
> OK Roy, here's the quote form the "Using GEOS" manual, page 123.
> "Interrupt Manager Card
> If you do not have a mouse attached to your Apple IIe, be sure to 
> install the the Interrupt Manager card in your computer.  It should be 
> in slot 7, with its components facing the right.  If you own an Apple 
> IIc, IIc plus, IIgs, or Laser 128, you do not need to install the 
> Interrupt Manager card, even if you do not have a mouse attached."
>
> Which translates to: If you got no mouse card, use the Interrupt Manager 
> card instead.

Exactly.
But some have been trying to find a way to have an Interrupt without a 
mouse card or sound card.

I can try to get the # of the pins for the fingers, should someone wish 
to try to create a similar card.

Or, I'd be willing to part with one of the two cards I have, if you are 
morally certain that you can create a similar card, and that would seem 
to be the only way to get Contiki running on a II

Roy

> Exegete (millers@noneofyourbusiness.com) writes:
>
> > The GEOS/Berkeley Softworks supplied an "IRQ Manager" card for the 
> > Apple IIe that did not have a mouse card.



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