The names of the lo-res graphics commands were very different from those that existed in Integer BASIC (and in the later versions of Applesoft). The commands were:
PLTG = Go to lo-res graphics mode TEX = Go to text mode PLTC N = Set color to N (0-15) PLTP X,Y = Plot square at X,Y PLTH X1,X2,Y = Plot horizontal line from X1 to X2 at Y PLTV Y1,Y2,X = Plot vertical line from Y1 to Y2 at X
In spring 1978, Randy Wigginton and some others at Apple made some needed revisions to Applesoft. Using a cross-assembler running on a North Star Horizon (Z-80) microcomputer, they fixed the known bugs and added other commands to control features unique to the Apple II. These commands included the ones needed to draw and manipulate hi-res graphics. Also, the lo-res graphics commands were renamed to be more consistent with the equivalent commands in Integer BASIC (GR, HLIN, VLIN, etc.) This version was called "Applesoft II", and eventually it was available in five forms: Cassette RAM and Diskette RAM (which loaded to the same memory locations that interfered with hi-res graphics as did Applesoft I), Firmware card ROM, Language card RAM, and finally main board ROM (in the Apple II Plus).
When Applesoft II was started up from cassette or diskette versions, the display screen now showed a copyright date of 1978 by Apple Computer, Inc., and 1976 by Microsoft (which may be either their copyright date for the original Microsoft BASIC, or possibly for Microsoft's first 6502 version).[6]
Apple put a copyright on it, which must mean Apple did something.
<flame type="obligatory" target="microsoft">Did you see that there were many bugs that needed to be fixed, and the code they recieved was almost identical to the Altair 8800 BASIC done by MS?</flame>
It's faster because of the 65xxx architecture. 2.5 MHz on a 65xxx processor is the equivalent of 10 MHz on a 80x86 processor or (I think, I'm not quite sure, though - it might be only 5 MHz) a 680x0 processor. In addition, the Mac had some serious code bloat, whereas you might have been on a ProDOS 16 command prompt on the GS. GS/OS might also have been written better, and the GS might have been loaded up with more RAM than the Plus. The 68000 in the Plus would have been 8(?) MHz.
My grandmother had a PR150+ burn out it was so bad! I have a 166MHz MediaGX (closest living relative is the Celeron, and that's not even related - maybe inspired) box, and my P75 laptop can outstrip it AT THE LOW PROCESSOR SPEED, which is something like 50MHz!!!!! Same amount of RAM too (not counting the 2MB taken by the shared VRAM on the Cyrix) Same OS! Nearly the same variant (OSR2 on the laptop, OSR2.1 on the Cyrix) too!
By the way, my signature has an intentional misspelling. bochs (capitalization also intentionally incorrect based on the bochs logo) is an open source IA32 emulation project. My signature is also based on a joke distributed via the Internet. Here is the quote from this joke that inspired this signature:
"The Amish."
"Check."
"Oh, come on," I said. "They don't even wear BUTTONS. How did you get them to buy a computer operating system?"
"We told them there were actually 95 very small windows in the box," the Microsoft man admitted. "We sort of lied. Which means we are all going to Hell, every single employee of Microsoft."
By the way, thank you for the hint, but no thanks for calling me a twit. In fact, I'll call you a twit. I am also going to assume that your Slashdot username is Pr0nboy. Therefore, Pr0nboy is a twit. Also, the grandparent post is a twit.
twit v. To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults.
n. 1. The act or an instance of twitting. 2. A reproach, gibe, or taunt. 3. Slang. A foolishly annoying person.
The usage of grammar and spelling rules escapes you, twit.
I am posting this while being logged in because I am not a coward, as the name Anonymous Coward implies that. Use the Slashdot moderation system to remove points from this post (and remove points from my so-called karma) if you would like.
Therefore, I have something else to say. The usage of your Slashdot username escapes you, twit.
Found one! It was made 8/19/91, doesn't have drainage channels, but it DOES have the quick-connect, but it's missing the F1 and left-shift keys. It was labelled as $3.99, but my grandmother bought it, so she got a 10% senior discount, and then we talked the cashier at Goodwill into selling it to us for 99 cents (plus 7 cents tax) because of the missing keys!
Pictures before I've taken any crap off (VERY LARGE, may not be uploaded yet because I'm not at home and I've only got a 56K here):
Actually, you could use this (and your tricked-out Athlon XP with Windows 2000) to emulate an XBox with Windows. Use a piracy-enabled version of this bootloader (and maybe a PC emulator) to load an XBox game on Windows, throw gender changers on an XBox to USB converter, plug the controller in, and go. Or, better yet, develop Plex86 to simulate XBox HW (or reverse engineer VMware to simulate those pieces of HW), take an XBox HD image and BIOS image, and run like hell from DMCA preachers!
Sorry. Unless, that is, you would like to reverse engineer the entire PS2 platform, and possibly the SDK itself, which that requires purchasing the SDK. Here's what you'd need to do:
Reverse engineer the PS2 IDE bus - the HDDs are an incompatible version of IDE Write a PS2 bootloader Port the Linux code to the Imagination Engine (or whatever the PS2 CPU is called) Reverse engineer the DVD-ROM and graphics card
Have you looked at their routers? They don't even have a web-based admin system! They require you to install some XP-friendly Broadband management crap! (I went with the D-Link DI-604 for that very reason - and for the $20 rebate...) BTW, their PCI Ethernet cards look just like the Belkin models (Realtek RTL8139 series).
In (a href="http://goatse.cx")Soviet Russia(/a), hot grits pour a beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans down your pants because Linux is better than Windows so...???...Profit! Oh, and, BTW, *BSD is dying!
It looks like copyleft.net might be where they were distributed, as their/. "News for Nerds" long sleeve shirt has this description (BTW, they've also got Rotohemos frisbees!):
About Slashdot
Slashdot was originally created in september of 97 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. Today it is owned by Andover.net. Slashdot is run primarily by Jeff "Hemos" Bates who posts stories, sells advertising, and handles the book reviews and Robin "Roblimo" Miller who has recently come on board to help us handle some of the more managerial sides of the site, as well as (surprise!) posting stories.
The same guy's gotten it to work with a C64 for two weeks, including a/.ing. He decided to take down the C64 to prevent it from getting hit by hackers... oh, wait... there aren't any known backdoors for it... must have just done it for fun!
He's probably got a nice internet connection, so it's not going to get/.ed that way. Contiki's stood up to a/.ing before, with TWO VNC servers AND streaming RealAudio (not to mention the webserver) on a Commodore 64. It's kinda slow, but the Ethernut is still up, BTW.
Amen. My 1999 HP Multimedia KB (PN 5183-7399) has Internet, Search, Help, Standby, Volume, and Mute buttons. The first three buttons don't work (I didn't install the HP recovery CD, because I wanted Windows 2000, and the CD doesn't get along with W2K very well), I don't use standby, but I nearly have to use volume/mute, as my speakers are the crappy Polk Audio speakers that come with HPs made in 1999 or later. You know, the ones that are like headphones internally, and are powered by the sound card(!) Volume is controlled through the SC too, so it's volume buttons or clicking on the speaker icon and dragging it up.
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Actually, it was Microsoft's code, licensed and then modified by Apple.
Check the Apple II History before you post stuff on the Apple II. Here's what you're looking for.
If you need exact quotes, here goes:
The names of the lo-res graphics commands were very different from those that existed in Integer BASIC (and in the later versions of Applesoft). The commands were:
PLTG = Go to lo-res graphics mode
TEX = Go to text mode
PLTC N = Set color to N (0-15)
PLTP X,Y = Plot square at X,Y
PLTH X1,X2,Y = Plot horizontal line from X1 to X2 at Y
PLTV Y1,Y2,X = Plot vertical line from Y1 to Y2 at X
In spring 1978, Randy Wigginton and some others at Apple made some needed revisions to Applesoft. Using a cross-assembler running on a North Star Horizon (Z-80) microcomputer, they fixed the known bugs and added other commands to control features unique to the Apple II. These commands included the ones needed to draw and manipulate hi-res graphics. Also, the lo-res graphics commands were renamed to be more consistent with the equivalent commands in Integer BASIC (GR, HLIN, VLIN, etc.) This version was called "Applesoft II", and eventually it was available in five forms: Cassette RAM and Diskette RAM (which loaded to the same memory locations that interfered with hi-res graphics as did Applesoft I), Firmware card ROM, Language card RAM, and finally main board ROM (in the Apple II Plus).
When Applesoft II was started up from cassette or diskette versions, the display screen now showed a copyright date of 1978 by Apple Computer, Inc., and 1976 by Microsoft (which may be either their copyright date for the original Microsoft BASIC, or possibly for Microsoft's first 6502 version).[6]
Apple put a copyright on it, which must mean Apple did something.
<flame type="obligatory" target="microsoft">Did you see that there were many bugs that needed to be fixed, and the code they recieved was almost identical to the Altair 8800 BASIC done by MS?</flame>
It's faster because of the 65xxx architecture. 2.5 MHz on a 65xxx processor is the equivalent of 10 MHz on a 80x86 processor or (I think, I'm not quite sure, though - it might be only 5 MHz) a 680x0 processor. In addition, the Mac had some serious code bloat, whereas you might have been on a ProDOS 16 command prompt on the GS. GS/OS might also have been written better, and the GS might have been loaded up with more RAM than the Plus. The 68000 in the Plus would have been 8(?) MHz.
Well, if you have to, just throw in some 8-bit code, as the 65816 has pretty damn good 65c02 emulation...
What?!? I have an Apple //c and a Hacker //e (//e classic rip-off)! Beats your IIgs ANY DAY!
My grandmother had a PR150+ burn out it was so bad! I have a 166MHz MediaGX (closest living relative is the Celeron, and that's not even related - maybe inspired) box, and my P75 laptop can outstrip it AT THE LOW PROCESSOR SPEED, which is something like 50MHz!!!!! Same amount of RAM too (not counting the 2MB taken by the shared VRAM on the Cyrix) Same OS! Nearly the same variant (OSR2 on the laptop, OSR2.1 on the Cyrix) too!
A copy of the joke can be found online at http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-125
By the way, thank you for the hint, but no thanks for calling me a twit. In fact, I'll call you a twit. I am also going to assume that your Slashdot username is Pr0nboy. Therefore, Pr0nboy is a twit. Also, the grandparent post is a twit.
twit
v.
To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults.
n.
1. The act or an instance of twitting.
2. A reproach, gibe, or taunt.
3. Slang. A foolishly annoying person.
The usage of grammar and spelling rules escapes you, twit.
I am posting this while being logged in because I am not a coward, as the name Anonymous Coward implies that. Use the Slashdot moderation system to remove points from this post (and remove points from my so-called karma) if you would like.
Therefore, I have something else to say. The usage of your Slashdot username escapes you, twit.
Geoshitties screwed up the extension. If they don't load, change the extension from .png to .PNG (yes, the capitalization makes a difference!)
Found one! It was made 8/19/91, doesn't have drainage channels, but it DOES have the quick-connect, but it's missing the F1 and left-shift keys. It was labelled as $3.99, but my grandmother bought it, so she got a 10% senior discount, and then we talked the cashier at Goodwill into selling it to us for 99 cents (plus 7 cents tax) because of the missing keys!
Pictures before I've taken any crap off (VERY LARGE, may not be uploaded yet because I'm not at home and I've only got a 56K here):
Front of keyboard
Back of keyboard
Label on keyboard
I know. I posted that because it got around the hard drive restriction.
you won't be able to instll GNU/Linux on your PS2 without the hard drive
Oh yeah?
Actually, you could use this (and your tricked-out Athlon XP with Windows 2000) to emulate an XBox with Windows. Use a piracy-enabled version of this bootloader (and maybe a PC emulator) to load an XBox game on Windows, throw gender changers on an XBox to USB converter, plug the controller in, and go. Or, better yet, develop Plex86 to simulate XBox HW (or reverse engineer VMware to simulate those pieces of HW), take an XBox HD image and BIOS image, and run like hell from DMCA preachers!
Sorry. Unless, that is, you would like to reverse engineer the entire PS2 platform, and possibly the SDK itself, which that requires purchasing the SDK. Here's what you'd need to do:
Reverse engineer the PS2 IDE bus - the HDDs are an incompatible version of IDE
Write a PS2 bootloader
Port the Linux code to the Imagination Engine (or whatever the PS2 CPU is called)
Reverse engineer the DVD-ROM and graphics card
And that's just the start...
No, I'm talking about the wired model. BTW, the box made it sound like the broadband manager was the only way to config it.
So you have a Windows C64 or Apple II Emulator hacked to run on the Xbox? After all, you said you were running Lunix!
Have you looked at their routers? They don't even have a web-based admin system! They require you to install some XP-friendly Broadband management crap! (I went with the D-Link DI-604 for that very reason - and for the $20 rebate...) BTW, their PCI Ethernet cards look just like the Belkin models (Realtek RTL8139 series).
In (a href="http://goatse.cx")Soviet Russia(/a), hot grits pour a beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans down your pants because Linux is better than Windows so...???...Profit! Oh, and, BTW, *BSD is dying!
T-Shirt HTML done in parentheses intentionally
BTW, will gradients be OK?
My bad:
/. merchandise (feels like it's slashdotted): http://web.archive.org/web/20020206014203/www.thin kgeek.com/slashdot/
Here's a Web Archive link with the official
It looks like copyleft.net might be where they were distributed, as their /. "News for Nerds" long sleeve shirt has this description (BTW, they've also got Rotohemos frisbees!):
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From the Windows font information on Coliseo-Normal (coliseo.ttf):
Version: Converted from c:\4-lba-tt\KOLOSS.TF1 by ALLTYPE
So it's not a knock-off, it's a direct conversion.
The same guy's gotten it to work with a C64 for two weeks, including a /.ing. He decided to take down the C64 to prevent it from getting hit by hackers... oh, wait... there aren't any known backdoors for it... must have just done it for fun!
It's happened before:
Google Search of "Score:5, Troll" on slashdot.org
He's probably got a nice internet connection, so it's not going to get /.ed that way. Contiki's stood up to a /.ing before, with TWO VNC servers AND streaming RealAudio (not to mention the webserver) on a Commodore 64. It's kinda slow, but the Ethernut is still up, BTW.
Amen. My 1999 HP Multimedia KB (PN 5183-7399) has Internet, Search, Help, Standby, Volume, and Mute buttons. The first three buttons don't work (I didn't install the HP recovery CD, because I wanted Windows 2000, and the CD doesn't get along with W2K very well), I don't use standby, but I nearly have to use volume/mute, as my speakers are the crappy Polk Audio speakers that come with HPs made in 1999 or later. You know, the ones that are like headphones internally, and are powered by the sound card(!) Volume is controlled through the SC too, so it's volume buttons or clicking on the speaker icon and dragging it up.