Re: IIe info wanted!

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

In article dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
>
>These differences mean that a different enhancement kit is required
>for each country.  For example, in the UK version, you need an
>enhanced UK video ROM.  As far as I know, it is no longer possible to
>get hold of these ROMs - only the US version of the enhancement kit is
>still available.  Alltech Electronics _might_ be able to supply the
>appropriate video ROM, but I doubt it.

	I wouldn't say absolutely required, I have a Canadian Apple IIe
which originally had the split video ROM (half US version, other half
local French character version) with the language switch underneath the
keyboard. I've succesfully Enhanced this system using a chipset extracted
from a US IIe. It works fine, expect of course if you flip the switch this
will the cause the screen to go blank, yet with no ill affects as far as I
can tell (makes a nice manual screen-saver though ;-).

	I also replaced the keyboard ROM for good measure, although I don't
think that was really necessary. The drawback of course is I no longer have
the "local" character set (which I don't use in any case); a fair trade off 
considering I can now run ProTERM, ShrinkIt and most other current software 
on this IIe.

Mitchell Spector
spector@vax2.concordia.ca