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Apple-IIe-Memory-Paging.md

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Apple provides multiple overlapping paging mechanisms which in total divide an Apple IIe's address space up into 12 distinct segments. Those are:
Apple provides multiple overlapping paging mechanisms which in total divide an Apple IIe's address space up into 12 distinct segments.
# 0000–0200
# Segments
## [0000, 0200)
Reading and writing: contains auxiliary RAM if `ALTZP` is set. Contains base RAM otherwise.
# 0300–0400; 0800–1000; 2000–C000
## [0300, 0400); [0800, 1000); [2000, C000)
Reading: contains base RAM if `RAMRD` is reset; contains auxiliary RAM otherwise.
Writing: as per reading, but regarding `RAMWRT` rather than `RAMRD`.
# 0400–0800
## [0400, 0800)
Reading: contains auxiliary RAM if either (i) both `80STORE` and `PAGE2` are set; or (ii) `80STORE` is reset and `RAMRD` is set. Contains base RAM otherwise.
Writing: as per reading, but regarding `RAMWRT` rather than `RAMRD`.
# 1000–2000
## [1000, 2000)
Reading: contains auxiliary RAM if either (i) `80STORE` and `PAGE2` are set, and `TEXT` is reset; or (ii) `80STORE` is reset and `RAMRD` is set. Contains base RAM otherwise.
Writing: as per reading, but regarding `RAMWRT` rather than `RAMRD`.
# C000–C100
## [C000, C100)
Never mapped to RAM. Always contains the internal and card IO.
# C100–C300; C400–D000
## [C100, C300); [C400, D000)
Contains ROM if `RDCXROM` is set. Otherwise is unmapped, allowing cards to respond.
# C300–C400
## [C300, C400)
Contains ROM if `RDCXROM` is set or `INTC3ROM` is reset. Otherwise is unmapped, allowing card 3 to respond.
# D000–E000
## [D000, E000)
Reading: contains ROM if the language card `read` flip flop is *disabled*. Contains base RAM if the flip flop is enabled and `ALTZP` is reset. Otherwise contains auxiliary RAM.
Writing: empty if the language card `write` flip flop is *enabled*. Contains base RAM if the flip flop is disabled and `ALTZP` is reset. Otherwise contains auxiliary RAM.
The portion of RAM accessed depends upon the language card's `BANK2` flip flop.
# E000—
As per D000—E000 except that `BANK2` does not affect the portion of RAM exposed.
## [E000, FFFF]
As per D000—E000 except that `BANK2` does not affect the portion of RAM exposed.
# Language Card Control
The language card contains four flip flops: `BANK2`, `read`, `write` and `prewrite`.
## BANK2
This selects which of two 4kb segments will appear in the region [D000, E000); it is set directly by address line 3 upon any access of the language-card switches.
## Read [enable]
This selects whether RAM or ROM will be read in the language card area. When it is **enabled**, RAM is read.
Any `(address%4)` equal to `0` or `3` enables RAM. `(address%4)` equal to `1` or `2` enables ROM.
## Write [disable]
This selects whether RAM will be written to by writes to the language card area. When it is **disabled**, RAM can be written to. So it acts like a write-protect switch.
It is **reset** if: (i) pre-write is set; and (ii) a read occurs to an odd address.
It is **set** if: a read occurs to an even address.
Otherwise it does not change value.
## Pre-write
This switch affects the write flip flop; it is set to the value of address line 1 upon any access of the language-card switches, after any change to write has occurred.