Re: MouseText on II+

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

Bill Garber wrote:

>How can I get MouseText onto my II+. I kind of think that
>it can be added but I can't seem to find anything on the net
>about it. I have a videx 80 column card with adapter plugged
>into the 74LS259/9334 socket so it can switch back and forth,
>but it only has the standard character set that comes in it. There
>is another socket that I believe might be for the MouseText set,
>but I don't have it or know where to get it. Or, does that go into
>the motherboard as a replacement rom? I would be happy to pay
>someone for their time and effort if they know how this is done
>and can supply me the necessary eprom/rom/info to do it. If you
>have this knowledge and the time to help me out, then email me
>and we'll work out a deal.

The second ROM socket is for the secondary character set
(7x9 characters) for the Videx card.  It was often used for
inverse characters to support VisiCalc, IIRC.

-michael

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