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- Apple II
- Technical Notes
- _____________________________________________________________________________
- Developer Technical Support
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- Apple IIc
- #6: Buffering Blues
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- Revised by: Mike Askins November 1988
- Written by: Guillermo Ortiz January 1987
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- This Technical Note describes changes on the memory-expandable IIc which
- affect the procedures for enabling keyboard and serial input buffering.
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- When the IIc firmware was reorganized to accommodate the memory expansion card
- in slot 4, the mouse moved to slot 7, thus causing some screen holes to be
- reassigned. This change may software which uses keyboard or serial input
- buffering to crash.
-
- The following list shows the changes in the locations which are used for
- enabling keyboard and serial input buffering:
-
- Original &
- Name 3.5 ROM Expandable IIc Comment
- typhed $5FA $5FA ;buffer the keyboard? NO CHANGE
- twkey $5FF $5FC ;storage pointer for type-ahead buffer
- trkey $6FF $6FC * ;retrieve pointer for type-ahead buffer
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- aciabuf $4FF $4FC ;Owner of serial buffer, if any
- twser $57F $57C ;storage pointer for serial buffer
- trser $67F $67C ;retrieve pointer for serial buffer
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- * In the version 3 ROM (original "memory-expandable" IIc) this pointer
- is still $6FF which causes, among other things, the Terminal Mode to
- be inoperative. Revision 4 of the IIc firmware fixes this bug.
-
- We can not emphasize enough the need for carefully checking the version of the
- machine on which a program is running. It is also important to pay attention
- to the now obvious fact that even in the Apple IIc things can (and most
- probably will) move around, making any hard-coded slot assignment a sure
- source of incompatibility. To ensure compatibility, scan the slots.
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- The Apple IIc Technical Reference Manual, Second Edition describes how to
- enable buffering. Using serial buffering as an example, the pertinent
- instructions in the manual should now be understood as meaning:
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- Using Serial Buffering Transparently
-
- If (machineID = "Memory Expandable IIc") then
- begin
- aciabuf = $04FC; {Newest IIc with Expanded Memory Capabilities,}
- twser = $057C; {ROM versions 3 and 4.}
- trser = $067C
- end
- else
- begin
- aciabuf = $04FF; {Original IIc and 3.5 ROM IIc}
- twser = $057F;
- trser = $067F
- end;
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- Set_Location aciabuf to $C1 or $C2.
- Set_Locations twser and trser to $0.
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- Using Serial Interrupts Through Firmware
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- Set_Location aciabuf to a value other than $C1 or $C2
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- Further Reference
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- o Apple IIc Technical Reference Manual, Second Edition
- o Apple IIc Technical Note #7, Existing Versions
- o Apple II Miscellaneous Technical Note #7, Apple II Family Identification
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