Re: Wall Defence game for Apple II

[lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx (Steve Nickolas)]

drHirudo wrote:
> The Imko and the Pravetz-82 computers, which we had at school, did not
> had left and right arrow keys, so I assumed that the older Apple II
> models, of which the bulgarian computers were almost exact clones,
> also lack these keys. I stand corrected.
> 
> These computers were the reason I knew about the Ctrl+H and Ctrl+U
> keys combinations. On the other hand, the Pravetz-8C, which I had at
> home, had all the direction keys, plus F1 and F2 and upper and lower
> case letters (Latin and Cyrillic, switchable with hardware switch). F1
> and F2 were mapped to the Joystick buttons 1 and 2 - very handy for
> pinball games and games with lots of shooting, where a friend can help
> you with the shooting by pressing F1 on the keyboard.

The Apple //e and later had the same functionality as your F1/F2 in Cmd/Opt
(or Open Apple/Solid Apple in earlier models).  Not having it on the ][+
frustrated me to no end since some programs make it impossible to reboot
without powering down!

-uso.