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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: corrigendum, FPE/TML problem
Message-ID: <13107@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 13 Jun 90 21:49:41 GMT
References: <900613060419.218051@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <900613060419.218051@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL> TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>Just to set the record straight, it appears not to have been a software
>problem afterall.  After a lot of fiddling I discovered that my new FPE
>only worked reliably in slot 6, not in slots 3 or 1, which I preferred.
>I've yet to discuss it with Innovative Systems.

Strange; are you sure that you changed the INIT file in SYSTEM.SETUP
when you changed FPE slots?  The INIT is slot-specific.

>Now the 64$ problem:  how easiest to bypass SANE and go directly to the
>68881?  The FPE manual is about as cryptic as one can get.

Your best bet is to simply use a compiler that generates code to directly
access the FPE, as I know Byte Works' compilers do.  There are also some
examples supplied on the iS software disk that accompanied the FPE.