Re: Technical manual for Laser 3000/Dick Smith Cat available

[giorgio.morocutti@alice.it]

Il 14 Jul 2008 08:10:21 GMT, Roger Johnstone
<roger@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit> ha scritto:

>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

Hallo Roger !

Thanks for your big job.

This manual is very useful for my old Laser3000 !

Ciao

Giorgio