Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!kamath From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple IIe ROMs and VisiCalc Message-ID: <8173@reed.UUCP> Date: 30 Jan 88 21:06:11 GMT References: <180@nucleus.UUCP> <1759@saturn.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 60 Keywords: Apple IIe, VisiCalc In article <1759@saturn.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: >In article <180@nucleus.UUCP> tjt@nucleus.UUCP (Tim Thomas) writes: >> >>A friend of mine recently installed some new ROMS in his Apple IIe >>to support a mouse. However, when he tries to run VisiCalc all >>inverse fields become garbage and unreadable. > >The "problem" is that the "garbage and unreadable" stuff is really MouseText. > >There's no way to get around it, as far as I know. Two ways: One: Replace the display ROM with the original. That will remove mousetext forever. . . Two: Hack to program (like I did to AppleWriter II) and find it's character output routine, and change it to switch C00E, or map the output char to the right place. /* mousetext */ You can use it on a //e, as long as it's upgraded. Basically, you turn on the 80 column card (either 40 or 80), inverse, and print chr$(27) (ESC). Viola, mousetext. To stop mousetext, ?chr$(24) (^X). Note that all this display switching can do interesting things...Such as flashing 80 column uppercase, which they said couldn't be done. . . How? pr#3 ?chr$(27) inverse call -151 c00e:00 0l the last, 0l, is to get some uppercase stuff on the screen. C00E and C00F control which set to use. Ted, I don't understand. The new //e tech ref does have mousetext info in it. I can't give you exact pages, as I left the manual at the school ski cabin, but the //c manual has it on page 83, in the Vidoe Display Output section. Look there. If it isn't there somewhere (maybe under Text Modes?), then you probably have a pre-enhanced //e ref manual. As far as I know, the only //e manuals that aren't about the enhanced //e are in the old style striped cover, not the white books. >Also, how can I do INVERSE, FLASH, -AND- MouseText on my //GS? It seems that >ProTERM, which wants inverse, works fine...But my old Dos 3.3 AppleWriter >turns most of the inverse into MouseText....Please explain. You can't get Flash *and* Mousetext. See above how for the procedure. I have got a fairly hacked version of AppleWriter, which I think I would be willing to dig up (the sources that is) and send a patch out to fix this bug. Sean Kamath -- UUCP: {decvax allegra ucbcad ucbvax hplabs ihnp4}!tektronix!reed!kamath CSNET: reed!kamath@Tektronix.CSNET || BITNET: reed!kamath@Berkeley.BITNET ARPA: tektronix!reed!kamath@Berkeley reed!kamath@hplabs US Snail: 3934 SE Boise, Portland, OR 97202 (I hate 4 line .sigs!)