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Re: 80 column (videx) card on apple ][ plus & lower case letters



WK2 wrote:
Thanks.  CTRL-A worked!

And thanks everyone for your suggestions and input.  What I wanted to
do was:
10 PRINT "Hello"
-- lower cases as a string, not as commands or basic statements.

The Apple computer I've got already have the keyboard mod, but I read
that that mod is only supported by certain software.

It depends on how the Videx card keyboard "driver" operates.

If it intercepts the KSWL keyboard input routine, then most
programs that use that vector for keyboard input will find
mixed case chaaracters.

If it polls the actual keyboard itself, then its support for
lower case depends on its own code.

There was a window of time between the ][+ and the //e where
a number of apps supported the shift key mod for lower case.
As the //e became the dominant platform, with native lower
case, supporting the shift key mod became passe.

-michael

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