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Re: Apple ]['s on the big screen



John E. Townsend (utownje@lexis-nexis.com) wrote:
: Christopher J Lewandowski-pearson wrote on 18 May 1997 05:33:44 GMT:
: >
: > Just a quick question:
: >
: > I'm almost done putting together my very own apple ][ page and
: > I would like to have a small section (list) of scenes from movies
: > that show good 'ole apple ]['s, ///'s and gs's!  (don't ask me why)

: Whatever you do, don't forget the original Terminator movie in which
: there are a couple of scenes which show the Terminator's field of
: vision.  As I recall, everything it sees is red and superimposed on it
: is a scrolling 6502 assembly language listing.  If you look at it
: carefully (and quickly) you can see from the comments that it's out of
: the Apple II's DOS or something.

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I just watched Terminator I last night. The code being showed is from
Nibble Express, Volume III. The article in question is "DOS 3+2" which
allows people to use DOS 3.3 and DOS 3.2 disks simultaneously. You can
even see the "Key Perfect" tables that they used to publish with their
programs.

	Stavros