Re: CP/M Softcard and Mouse card incompatible???

[Jeff Billman <jeff_billman_nospam@hp.com>]

red_october@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
Red,

I had an Apple mouse card and a M$ Softcard in my apple ][ (upgraded to
+) and I don't remember seeing the problems you talk about.

Regards,
Jeff Billman

> Does anyone have a CP/M softcard and a mousecard
> installed in an Apple IIe?  I'm finding that
> the mousecard is interfering with CP/M in that
> soft resets sometimes fail, scrambling the
> screen, and occasionally even cold boots
> fail too.  During normal operation of CP/M,
> however, there seems to be no problem.
> Prodos and Dos3.3 work fine, though.
> 
> If I take out the mousecard, the problem
> disappears.  Switching interrupt handling
> on the softcard seems to make no difference.
> 
> The mousecard is in slot 4, and the softcard in
> slot 7.  I have two disks in slot 6, a memory
> expansion card in 5, a serial card in two and
> a printer in 1.
> 
> Can anyone verify if the two cards are
> incompatible?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Red.
> 
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