Re: Berkeley Softworks IRQ Manager

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>]

On Sat, 02 Mar 2002 18:28:42 -0600, Exegete wrote:

>
>
> Wayne Stewart wrote:
>
>> Stephen Shaw wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 07:57:54 -0800, Wayne Stewart wrote:
>>>
>>
>>>>It's used to provide interrupts for the GEOS software in systems that
>>>>doesn't have a mouse card. That's the only time you'd ever need the
>>>>
>>
>>>>card and then only if you have no mouse card or equivalent.
>>>>I have one and I saw another in a local thrift store a short while back. I
>>>>was tempted in  that I suspect that they aren't super common but
>>>>passed because I suspect no one would actually ever need to
>>>>use it.
>>>>
>>>>    Wayne
>>>>
>>>I don't know it might be quite fun to tinker with GEOS. Was it as good as
the
>>>advertising blurb in various Apple II magazines at the time?
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure because I didn't use it very long because it's one major
drawback
> ,
>> (copy protection) out shone all it's good points, or at least in the
versions
> I
>> have.
>>
>> It came on a copy protected disk that let you install it on a hard drive but
i
> t
>> wouldn't boot off that hard drive unless the original floppy was in the disk
>> drive.
>> The annoyance of having to keep that floppy in the drive plus the slowdown
>> while the computer checks the floppy drive caused me to dump the program
>> very quickly.
>> Be great if someone knows about a version without this copy protection or a
>> patch to defeat it.
>>
>>     Wayne
>
>
> Later versions weren't copy protected. I have at least one copy of the
> nonprotected version.
>
> Roy

Can you post it on Asimov please Roy.


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