Re: Apple III?

[spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article lmull@skypoint.com (Larry Mullaly) writes...
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>	I recently acquired an apple III someone was going to throw 
>away.  It came with the green screen monitor and a 'Profile' hard-drive.  
>It also came with a bunch of manuals and software.  I used to mess around 
>with the IIe back in high school, so I thought It would be neat to 
>refamiliarize myself with it.  I found an apple II emulation program for it 
>but I don't know if it will run IIe software.  I would like to run it in 

	The emulation boot disk will _only_ allow you to run the Apple III
as a stock Apple II Plus system. In otherwords, 48K maximum, 40 columns all
uppercase text, Low/High-Res graphics and 1 MHz operation. Chips were added
to the III's design to actual disable any of the more advanced features when
running in Apple II mode.

>IIe mode and be able to run the programs I get from FTP sites.  What I 
>need to know is if the apple III belongs in the garbage, or can I get it 
>to act like a IIe?

	If you can find a piece of hardware called the Titan ///+// (a pair 
of slot cards) the machine can emulate a 128K Unenhanced Apple IIe, though
it's quite rare. The Apple III running in native mode is simular in function
to an Apple IIe, in fact it's actually more powerful. The Washington Apple Pi
(WAP) group has a library of Apple III software should you be interesting. 
There are few if any games, but many other types of applications.

	No computer belongs in the garbage! If it's of no use to you, donate
it to a school or someone who cannot afford a machine. 

Mitchell Spector
spector@vax2.concordia.ca