Re: Language Card access -- do $C08x switches work on IIGS?

[dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <XHaa5B1w165w@sms.business.uwo.ca> a3khan@sms.business.uwo.ca (Alimudin Khan) writes:
> Does the following statement, entered from the applesoft prompt, crash
> into the monitor on your IIGS, like it does on mine?
> 
> PRINT PEEK (-16256)

It depends on what operating system you're running.  Under ProDOS, I'd
certainly expect this to crash, since Applesoft will turn on the
language code, and suddenly start running in the middle of some code
in ProDOS!

It should work in DOS 3.3, if you have a copy of the ROM in the
language card.  If you had Integer Basic running in the language card,
it would probably crash as well.

> I have an old program from Nibble magazine that has this statement as its
> final line.  It is trying to toggle $c080 -- "Selects RAM, selects bank 
> 2, and enables the write-protect" on the language card, according to 
> 'Inside the Apple IIGS' by Gary Bond, which is normally a reliable 
> source.

How old was this issue of Nibble?  What is the program supposed to be doing?

The IIgs certainly has the language card softswitches.
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David Empson                                                               
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