Re: Those Apple ][ clones...

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius) wrote:

>> (Supertimer) writes:
>> 
>> >6. ROM:
>> >     192K -- This includes the only legal Apple compatible
>> >     ROM by 1988 (Apple lost a lawsuit challenging it) and
>> >     Microsoft BASIC (the Applesoft compatible version)
>> >     licensed from Microsoft.
>
>!!! 192K?

That's right.  Not all taken up by Laser's version of Applesoft
mind you.  A lot of that stuff must be for Apple II compatibility.
Remember, it has reversed engineered ROMs that were
legal.  It was programmed to allow Apple II software to run
but not do it the same way.  The programmers just sat down
knowing how the Apple II behaves and programmed to ROM
to provide the same but the code is not the same as in an
Apple II ROM.

>> Do you know the source of the CPU acceleration technology?
>> Was it Zip Technology or AE?  The reason I ask, is that if it is
>> Zip-derived (like the //c+), then the standard Zip utilities can be
>> used to configure a "slowdown" on speaker accesses, restoring
>> normal sound.
>
>It might not have even been accelerated - that was just its native
>speed.  I don't know though.  The 128 I used ran about 1 MHz.

3.6Mhz was native.  The computer could be slowed down
to 2.3Mhz or 1Mhz to simulate the speed of a IIGS in IIe
mode or an Apple IIe unaccelerated in the control panel
though.  It has a control panel like the IIGS that's battery
backed.

Here's a pic of the Laser.  I'm not sure if the link still
works but it did when I was last active in csa2:

http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Misc/laserpics.gif