Re: Laser 128EX RAM

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com>]

In article <3b689554.6928707@newsflash.concordia.ca>, 
a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:


> "Kim Heui Jung" <spix2000@kornet.net> wrote:
>
>>What is Laser 3000?
>
>     An Apple II compatible that predates the Laser 128. I'm not too
> familiar with its capabilities, though I do recall it having extended
> video modes that went beyond the standard Apple II (they were
> latter dropped in the '128' models). Here's a crude GIF scan:
>
> ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Misc/laser.3000.A2.CLONE.GIF

My first computer was a Dick Smith Cat, a rebadged Laser 3000. It had
80-column text and double hires like the IIe, but the hardware was different
so most IIe software wouldn't run on it. Instead of using interleaved memory
it ran the processor at 2MHz when it was in a double res mode. It also had
an RGB mode, where it used three hires screens as red, green and blue planes
to produce a true eight colour display at 280 by 192 with no colour
limitations. In addition it had a sound chip, a numeric keypad and function
keys.

--
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

Apple II - Future Cop:LAPD - iMac Voodoo2 - Warcraft II
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