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Re: Apple //e With 6502AP



"Peter Ibbotson" <spambox@ibbotson.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<b4k99d$4pp$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk>...
> "Michael Black" <et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
> news:b4j9o5$lg8$1@freenet9.carleton.ca...
> > Dosius (steve@dosius.zzn.com) writes:
> > > "Bryan Parkoff" <BParkoff@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
>  news:<GhKdnXeVwYBd4_ajXTWQlg@giganews.com>...
> > >> Does 6502AP use Apple II+'s ROM?
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Yours Truly,
> > >>
> > >> Bryan Parkoff
> > >> BParkoff@satx.rr.com
> > >
> > > 6502AP is a CPU - it doesn't know or care about what type of memory it
>  is accessing.
> > >
> > > -uso.
> >
> > In the context of the thread, I was assuming that comment was "if
> > there's a 6502 in the IIe, are the II+ ROMs used?".
> >
> > If that's the case, the answer would have to be no.  It would require
> > the IIe ROMs since there is code in there to handle the extended
> > memory, and any additional hardware that the IIe contains.
> >
> > If the II or II+ ROMs were placed in a IIe, either the whole thing
> > would not work, or parts of it would not work.
> >
> 
> 
> I would guess that most of it with the exception of 80 column routines would
> work. After all when you're running integer basic from the language card
> it's the same version you would have on a II+.

I think, if you can load the ][+ ROM onto the language card (FPBASIC,
or Create Newbasic's modified version), you can probably toss the ][+
ROM into a //e, but why? :)

-uso.