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Technical manual for Laser 3000/Dick Smith Cat available
- Subject: Technical manual for Laser 3000/Dick Smith Cat available
- From: Roger Johnstone <roger@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit>
- Date: 14 Jul 2008 08:10:21 GMT
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Well you asked for it so here it is. Well actually I think Giorgio might
have been the only one to ask for it, but everyone else is welcome to it
as well.
This is the Technical Reference Manual for the Dick Smith Cat a.k.a.
Video Technologies Laser 3000, the precursor to the famous Laser 128.
It's 274 pages long and a 12.6 MB download. For a clone it marked a real
turning point. It was made in 1984 and used a couple of custom gate
array chips. It was only mostly II+-compatible, but had many of the
specs of the IIe (80-column text, 64 KB of RAM, double-hires graphics).
In many ways it was more advanced (2 MHz CPU, better extended memory
management, sound chip, extended BASIC), but most of those features were
dropped with the Laser 128 in favour of IIe compatibility.
http://roger.geek.nz/apple2/downloads/TheCatTechnicalReferenceManual.pdf.
zip
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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand -> http://roger.geek.nz