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from: mdj
date: 2008-08-14 20:09:00
subject: Re: 80 column (videx) card on apple ][ plus & lower case letters

On Aug 15, 12:49=A0pm, David Schmenk  wrote:

> With the Videx board, CTRL-A acts like a CAPS LOCK when in 80-column
> mode (PR#3). =A0If you add the shift wire mode, then the SHIFT key works
> like it should. =A0I don't think you can type BASIC keywords in lowercase=
.

You can't. Only on machines with enhanced firmware does the Applesoft
tokeniser accept keywords case insensitively.

On the unenhanced IIe, - rigged GETCHAR to uppercasify
anything not between double quotes, but in the later firmwares this
feature is superfluous.

Of course, adventurous people can (and did) modify the firmware
themselves to get friendlier behaviour on the older machines.

Matt
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