Re: franklin ace 500 power supply pinout?

[Ralph Glatt <mairsil@my-deja.com>]

In article <19990906234748.17425.00005779@ng-ck1.aol.com>,
  supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> Ralph Glatt <mairsil@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> >Nice features of the ACE 500 is
> >apparent - programmable function keys, and a numeric keypad added to
the
> >keyboard. (Personally, I like its look better than the //c as well.)
> >The only irritating thing about it is that uses floating point basic
> >instead of integer, so not all Apple // software works on it.
>
> But the Apple IIc also used floating point BASIC.  If it
> is a IIc compatible, of course it is going to use floating
> point BASIC (Applesoft) rather than Integer BASIC.

Well, the point I was trying to get across was that it doesn't run
Integer, whereas the //c does. (I know, I've tried.) Most Apple //
software runs on it, though. The stuff I had problems with were mostly
games, especially the Ultima series.


Ralph Glatt


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