 | | From: | Alistair Ross | | Subject: | Enhancing the Unenhanced! | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:24:23 +0000 |
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 | Hi Everyone,
I'm fairly sure that my Apple //e (1982) is unenhanced. Is there a poke
that I can do from basic to see if mousechars appear, confirming this fact?
I have a faulty Platinum kicking around. I would expect that the ROMS
are probably still working. Truth is I don't know exactly what is wrong
with it. I've tried all the usual stuff.
Anyway, is it possible to remove ROMS from the Platinum and place them
in a //e to make it enhanced? If so, which ones (ie what will be printed
on the ICs?).
Kindest Regards,
Alistair Ross
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| | From: | Moll | | Subject: | Re: Enhancing the Unenhanced! | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:40:40 GMT |
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| Alistair Ross wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
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> I'm fairly sure that my Apple //e (1982) is unenhanced. Is there a
> poke that I can do from basic to see if mousechars appear, confirming
> this fact?
Easiest to just do this: CALL -1184
and see whether it says "Apple ][" or "Apple //e" (latter is enhanced).
Moll.
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| | From: | Alistair Ross | | Subject: | Re: Enhancing the Unenhanced! | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:10:56 +0000 |
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| Moll wrote:
> Alistair Ross wrote:
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>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I'm fairly sure that my Apple //e (1982) is unenhanced. Is there a
>> poke that I can do from basic to see if mousechars appear, confirming
>> this fact?
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>
> Easiest to just do this: CALL -1184
> and see whether it says "Apple ][" or "Apple //e" (latter is enhanced).
>
Oh well, it's unhenhanced then ;)
Regards,
Alistair Ross
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| | From: | Martin Doherty | | Subject: | Re: Enhancing the Unenhanced! | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:51:58 -0500 |
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| Alistair Ross wrote:
> Anyway, is it possible to remove ROMS from the Platinum and place them
> in a //e to make it enhanced? If so, which ones (ie what will be printed
> on the ICs?).
I think you're out of luck there. The Beige //e has two ROM chips, CD
rom and EF rom. The Platinum //e has a single chip called CF rom. They
obviously lowered the component count between the two models.
I have JPEGs of the motherboards for //e Enhanced, //e Platinum, IIgs
ROM01 and IIgs ROM03 (I think courtesy of Wayne Stewart?). It's fun to
overlay the windows and do a blink comparison like the astronomers do.
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| | From: | Damon Wicklund | | Subject: | Re: Enhancing the Unenhanced! | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:53:01 -0800 |
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| Martin Doherty wrote:
> Alistair Ross wrote:
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>> Anyway, is it possible to remove ROMS from the Platinum and place them
>> in a //e to make it enhanced? If so, which ones (ie what will be
>> printed on the ICs?).
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> I think you're out of luck there. The Beige //e has two ROM chips, CD
> rom and EF rom. The Platinum //e has a single chip called CF rom. They
> obviously lowered the component count between the two models.
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> I have JPEGs of the motherboards for //e Enhanced, //e Platinum, IIgs
> ROM01 and IIgs ROM03 (I think courtesy of Wayne Stewart?). It's fun to
> overlay the windows and do a blink comparison like the astronomers do.
The Apple //e Enhancement Kits show up on Ebay from time to time. Not
only you get the new ROMS (CD and EF), you also get a 65C02 and an
updated character generator ROM.
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Damon Wicklund
Apple ][ Forever
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