Re: Apple///

[David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz]

In article <C10swJ.H9A@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umpfaif0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mike Pfaiffer) writes:
> 
> 	I also noticed that there was an Apple// emulator in the pile of disks.
> I assume that this is a ][+ emulator. Was there ever a //e emulator put out
> for this machine? I managed to get it to run ProDOS easily, but there was a
> little trouble with DOS3.3.

The Apple /// has hardware emulation of a 48k Apple ][+ (you need to
boot the emulator disk to enable it).  When emulating an Apple II, you
don't have access to any special features of the Apple /// (such as
the extra memory).  Apple actually bent over backwards to limit the
capabilities of the Apple II emulation mode.

You can only run ProDOS version 1.0 or 1.0.1 - later versions require
64k.  You will not be able to run very many ProDOS application
programs, in particular BASIC.SYSTEM doesn't work with a 48k system.

I'm surprised that DOS 3.3 had trouble.

There is no IIe emulator that I'm aware of.  If there was one, it
would have to be done entirely in software (i.e. slow emulation).

> 	One thing I have to say about the early Apple machines is that
> they are like tanks. They are very hard to hurt. After all this time
> they still function as well as they ever did.

Very true.  The /// even weighs as much as a tank.  ;-)
-- 
David Empson

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