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Re: Apple 2C Question
On Thu, 21 May 1998 03:31:13 GMT, CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff
Blakeney) wrote:
>Having never owned a //c I need to ask. Does the //c enable the 80
>column firmware on startup? I was under the assumption that it worked
>the same as all the other Apple II models and it didn't enable the 80
>column firmware until you specifically told it to do so by typing
>PR#3.
Yes. Or, if you're in BASIC,
Esc, Apple-8
>The ESC-4 and ESC-8 keypresses only work when the 80 column firmware
>is active, if I remember correctly. (For those who don't know, if you
>have a checkerbox cursor then the 80 column firmware is disabled or
>inactive, if you have a solid box cursor then the 80 column firmware
>is enable or active.)
For some odd reason, the //c has better 80-column support--you can hit
Esc, Apple-4 when you're in the regular 40-column mode, and you will
be shoved into the "sepcial" 40-column mode, as provided by the
80-column firmware. Also, on a //c, the double-low resolution (80 x
40 x 16 colors) mode is supported in BASIC. I was quite confused when
my //c-made double-low resolution programs didn't work on my school's
//e's...But don't even get me started about the //c's 80/40 column
switch! How many programs supported it? Two? The only programs that
I can get to use that switch are System Utilities and Copy ][+!
Otherwise, that switch is totally useless.
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