Re: Apple //e With 6502AP

["Peter Ibbotson" <spambox@ibbotson.demon.co.uk>]

"Michael Black" <et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
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> Dosius (steve@dosius.zzn.com) writes:
> > "Bryan Parkoff" <BParkoff@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
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> >> 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+.

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