Re: Apple II/II+ Question

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3D2714F0.E273DD93@buckeye-express.com>,
Paul R. Santa-Maria <paulrsm@buckeye-express.com> wrote:
 
> Bryan Parkoff wrote:
> 
> Apple also made the Language Card.  This is a 16K RAM card 
> that also goes into slot 0 and lets you switch between the
> motherboard ROMs and the memory on the Language Card in
> a similar way that the Firmware Card works.  It was 
> introduced for Apple Pascal but DOS 3.3 uses it to
> load whichever BASIC is not on the motherboard.  That is,
> if you have Integer BASIC on the motherboard, DOS 3.3 will
> load Applesoft into the Language card and vice-versa.
 
No, DOS 3.3 by itself won't do this.  You'll have to write an
appropriate "Hello" program which does this.  My favourite way of
doing this was to let an Applesoft program read-enable the onboard
ROM's and write-enable the Language Card RAM's, and then simply BLOAD
a binary file containing an image of what was to be stored in the
Language Card RAM's.  After that BLOAD, DOS 3.3 could switch
between the two languages.
 
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