Re: AppleSoft Basic to text

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Phoenyx writes ...
> 
> >      Yes-- messed up there-- if you can print out to the IIe,
> > then the stuff should appear on the IIe screen and be entered
> > as though typed in. As long as the print speed does not exceed
> > the ability of the IIe to enter each BASIC line, you should
> > end up with the program in memory on the IIe.
> 
> Yes, as mentioned in my previous reply and the ADT documents,
> this is 300 baud. At least in normal circumstances. It may be
> possible to get higher speeds on an accelerated system. With
> this method the text must be clean code. No erroneous
> characters.

     The dump transfer program should routinely supply a delay after sending
a BASIC line; so, as long as the serial interface is normally reliable, a
higher speed should be okay on a faster machine. (A bit of an increase,
perhaps to 1200 baud, may be okay on a 1MHz machine.)

     The biggest limiting factor would be the time it takes the Apple II to
deal with screen formatting and display during the transfer. At some point
you would begin to miss characters during, say, a line feed which updates the
entire screen.



> 
> Normally, I would recommend Program Writer, but I'm not sure
> if there is a Dos 3.3 version.
 ....

     PW shipped with both the DOS 3.3 and ProDOS version. But, you need 128k
to run either version.



Rubywand