Re: Will someone please send me STM

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <2q8ree$1fa@ivy.bga.com> khym@bga.com (Khym Mahn) writes:

>Heh, the emulator also includes the Autostart ROM and the DOS 3.3
>System Master, both still copyrighted by Apple. Heck, Apple is _still_
>licensing DOS 3.3! (eew! :-) I suppose if they licensed DOS 3.3, it'd
>be OK to distribute, but I really have doubts about including the ROM.
>The other emulators I've seen make you get the ROM from a real Apple II.

Yeah, I smell real illegalities here, but I suspect that Nitchals and co have
inadvertantly adopted the same attitude as Apple Inc about the A2: They Just
Don't Care.

>However, the thing does run pretty fast (Quadra 650). It claims to get
>about 2.6MHz, although for some reason, it seems a bit slower than an
>unaccellerated GS. Slow video, maybe... BTW:

Hmm, I've managed to hit nearly 900 khz once or twice (LC III 4/80, 8-bit
video), but in general it doesn't make it above 400, and the sound is
absolutely horrific (bee-eee-eee-eee-eep...get the picture? :)

>]CALL-151
>
>*300:AD 55 C0 AD 54 C0 4C 3 0 N 300G
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>doesn't seem to do anything. Doesn't flash the screen or anything...

Hmm, have to try that...poking around the switches manually seemed to work as
expected.

>Also, how do you install a lowercase character generator and shift key
>mod in this thing? :-)

Forget that, I wanna stick in a TransWarp, Phasor, and my DataLink 2400 ;)

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