4 Sep
1998
4 Sep
'98
1:24 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
Also slot 0 (far left, nearest the PSU) is odd in
software. You can't
access it with the standard PR# and IN# commands like you can all other
slots. In general only put language cards and Applesoft ROM cards there.
It might be worth mentioning that Apple //e's don't have a slot 0. The
"language card" (really just an additional 16K of bank-switched RAM) is
built-in. Also, on the //e slot 3 is tied in to the auxiliary slot, where
normally RAM and 80-column boards go. If you've got something in the aux.
slot, you can't put anything in slot 3, with some exceptions. For
instance, I have an AE TransWarp accelerator board in my //e that has a
3.3Mhz 6502 CPU which overrides the motherboard 6502 upon bootup. This
board is great in that it plugs into slot 3, in conjunction with my
expanded 80-column card in the aux. slot, and therefore does not waste a
slot.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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