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   XPost: comp.sys.sinclair, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.apple2   
   XPost: comp.sys.cbm   
   From: LyricalNanoha@dosius.net   
      
   On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, The Wizard of Oz wrote:   
      
   > There is something nobody has talked about yet. Possibly because it might   
   > not have made it out of Winnipeg. M$ made a CP/M card for the Apple//. It   
   > worked in my ][+, sort of worked with my //e clone, and wouldn't work in   
   > my GS.   
      
   Try running the GS in 1 MHz mode.   
      
   > It was intended to be a text only display using the Apple as a   
   > display unit. I think someone locally wrote a unit for Turbo Pascal which   
   > used the Apples memory to display HGR graphics. I took a look at the calls   
   > and figured out how the author did it. The M$ card had a special routine   
   > which allowed the programmer to directly access the Apples soft switches.   
   > The RAM wasn't on the CP/M card. The card just rearranged the available   
   > memory from the Apple and had a limited amount of RAM and I guess ROM to   
   > replace what was used by the Apple. The memory was allocated and the unit   
   > was a series of routines which built on the plot of a single point. It   
   > still displayed graphics in colour.   
      
   There is a version of MBASIC that supports the graphics commands from   
   Applesoft.  I've used it on real hardware (knockoff, not M$ brand).   
   Doesn't really work well on the //e because CP/M insists on running in   
   80-column mode.   
      
   -uso.   
      
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