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Volume 4 -- Issue 4                    January, 1984


In This Issue...


Profiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
More from Don Lancaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
DOS Patches to Avoid Interrupt Trouble . . . . . . . . . . 10
It Was a Bad Dream, I Think. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
More on the New 6502 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
68000 "Color Pattern". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
"Understanding the Apple II", A Review . . . . . . . . . . 25
Locksmith 5.0 Reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
On-Line with Steve Wozniak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27



News from Apple

Apple sent us a mouse the other day, and we hope to build some software around it.  The mouse came with a disk of graphic software (done by Bill Budge) which makes the plain old Apple II look almost as good as Lisa.  I didn't know your could do all that on a 280x192 screen, and as fast as he does it.  The mouse itself appears identical to the Lisa mouse.  It attaches to a cute red interface card you plug into any slot.  The card has a version of the 6805 microprocessor on it...the kind with internal ROM and RAM which is not visible from the outside world.

Apple also is spreading the word that future Apple //e's are going to have 32 icon characters in the alternate character set.  This probably means some changes to the Cx ROM... (Erv Edge says he hopes that means they are going to fix some bugs, too!)

Another tidbit from Apple is that future //e's will have most of the chips soldered to the motherboard, rather than riding in sockets.  They say that should solve most of the remaining reliability problems.  In my experience, Apple doesn't have any reliability problems.  And I like sockets, because I like to tinker.  And if something eventually does go bad, it is certainly easier to trade chips than motherboards.  Nevertheless, they have made up their minds.
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