Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!gitpyr!ccasths From: ccasths@pyr.gatech.EDU (Scott Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: LASER 128 Message-ID: <5948@pyr.gatech.EDU> Date: 20 Jun 88 22:07:20 GMT References: <8806190153.aa00931@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Reply-To: ccasths@pyr.UUCP (Scott Hinckley) Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 28 In article <8806190153.aa00931@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes: >>2.) Are there any massive software or hardware incompatibilities that >>I should know about. > From what I've been reading on this list, the Laser's serial port does > not support interrupts (as does a real Super Serial Card). If that is > so, the some very nice public domain communications software (Kermit for > the Apple II) won't work entirely satisfactorily, and some rather nice > (and not too expensive) shareware programs (ZLink, TIC) won't work > at all. >--------------------- >Disclaimer: The "look and feel" of this message is exclusively MINE! > (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) >ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall >BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. >UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut I have been using a Laser128 for about two years now and have yet to find a program I couldn't run on it. I know there are programs that won't, but it seems that most of the mainstream applications and games (as well as many of the all but unheard of) run fine. I have tried TIC and had no problems with it (I have a Volksmodem1200). +=======================================================================+ |Scott Hinckley - OCS User Assistant AKA - Galaxy's End | |Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 | |uucp: ...!gatech!pyr!ccasths | |ARPA: ccasths@pyr.gatech.edu | +=======================================================================+