Re: 65c02 in Apple][

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Robert Steinmetz asked:

>I discovered I had a Rockwell 65c02 and I installed it in my 
>Apple ][. The computers seems to function just as it did before, 
>But I haven't been able to run any programs I could not run before.
>
>It there a simple way to determine if I have the additional 
>instructions available for program use?

Trust me, if you installed a 65C02 in place of a 6502, you
have new instructions available!

You can go into the monitor and write a short program
(say, one that uses STZ to store zero somewhere), then
run it and see that it works.

The latest versions (2.x) of ProDOS require a 65C02.

-michael

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