14 Sep
1998
14 Sep
'98
12:43 p.m.
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
Now, on the //e, AppleSoft doesn't mind lowercase,
but DOS 3.3 still pukes
as it was written in an era where lowercase simply was never considered,
even as a future enhancement.
A friend of mine created a product called LowerEase that added lowercase
to the Apple ][. In addition to the character gen ROM and a shift key
mod, I thought the package also included a patch to the command-line
interpreter for Apple DOS. IIRC, DOS intercepted the command-line input
routine for AppleSoft, so this would have worked for BASIC as well. (I
never used his product, so I may be making this all up.)
-- Doug