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.\" Apple //e emulator manpage
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.\"
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.\" MODIFICATION HISTORY
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.\" v0.8 by Aaron Culliney @ BitR0t.com Feb 2014.
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.\" v0.5 by Aaron Culliney <chernabog@baldmountain.bbn.com>, Feb 1998.
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.\" v0.6 by Aaron Culliney <chernabog@baldmountain.bbn.com>, Aug 1998.
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.\" This code has nothing to do with my employer, GTE Internetworking,
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.\" BBN Technologies. It was written completely on my own time and on
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.\" my own machine.
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.\"
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.TH APPLE2IX 6 "v0.8 February 2014"
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.UC 7
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.SH NAME
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apple2ix \- Apple //e emulator
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.ft B
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apple2ix
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.ft R
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I apple2ix
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emulates a 128k Apple //e computer. To use the emulator effectively you need to
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acquire the original //e ROM file which is not distributed due to copyright
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reasons. The emulator reads standard 143360-byte and 232960-byte disk image
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files with
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.I .dsk
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,
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.I .do
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, and
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.I .nib
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suffixes.
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.PP
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There are only a few command line options:
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.TP
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.I --help
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Display a quick help
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.TP
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.I --version
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Display version of emulator
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.TP
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.I --noshm
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Run emulator with no shared memory (for remote X11 desktops)
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.PP
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.ft R
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.SH THE .apple2 FILE
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The emulator reads user preferences from a
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.I .apple2
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file located in your home directory. This file is auto-magically created for
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you.
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.I .apple2
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You can edit the settings using your favorite editor, but most of the settings
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can be adjusted from the emulator itself (see menus section below).
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.TP
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.I speed
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Multiple of the Apple //e CPU speed. 1.0 attempts to match the speed of the
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//e. 2.0 is twice as fast. 0.5 is half.
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.TP
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.I altspeed
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Alternate speed setting. F9 key in emulator will toggle between this and the
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regular configured speed. This is useful to slow or speed up emulation as
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needed.
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.TP
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.I disk path
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Toplevel path of disk images directory. Personally I like
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/path/to/your/home/directory/.apple2ix/disks
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.TP
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.I color
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Color modes. One of Black/white, color, interpolated.
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.TP
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.I video
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The size of the emulation 1X, 2X
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.TP
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.I volume
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Speaker Volume setting 0-10
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.TP
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.I joystick
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Off, joy keypad, or pc joystick
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.TP
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.I pc joystick parms
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PC Joystick calibration parameters. This is best adjusted from the calibration
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routine from within the emulator. Press F10 to bring up the settings menu and
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select Calibrate Joystick.
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If the emulator complains that it cannot open the joystick device, make sure
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your joystick or gamepad is connected to the PC and make sure the Linux joystick
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module is loaded.
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.TP
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.I keypad joystick parms
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Keypad/arrow-keys joystick parameters. Change this through the calibration
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routine from the F10 settings menu.
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.TP
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.I system path
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The directory holding the rom files. The emulator won't run if this is not set
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properly. You can only change this by editing the
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.I .apple2
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file.
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.PP
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A sample .apple2 file:
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.nf
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speed = 1.00
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altspeed = 4.00
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disk path = /usr/local/games/apple2/disks
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color = interpolated
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video = 1X
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volume = 8
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joystick = joy keypad
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system path = /usr/local/games/apple2/rom
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pc joystick parms = 128 128 255 1 255 1
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keypad joystick parms = 8 1
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.fi
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.PP
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.SH ROM FILES
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The emulator requires several ROM files to run.
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.TP
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.I slot6.rom
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You need this file for basic disk drive emulation. It is 256 byte
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memory dump of the consecutive addresses from C600 to C6FF. This file
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is not distributed again due to copyright issues. This file may also
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be named
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.I controller.rom,
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but is referenced internally as
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.I slot6.rom.
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.TP
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.I apple_IIe.rom
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It is the 32K ROM of your 128k Apple //e, a dump of main memory (bank 0)
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addresses C000-FFFF concatenated with auxiliary memory (bank 1) addresses
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C000-FFFF. Because the
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.I apple_IIe.rom
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contains the C600 slot, you can construct the
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.I slot6.rom
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file from this one. The
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.I apple_IIe.rom
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file may also be named
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.I apple2e.rom
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but is referenced internally as
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.I apple_IIe.rom.
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.PP
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.ft R
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.SH DISK IMAGES
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The emulator reads standard DOS3.3-order 143360 byte '.dsk' images (sometimes
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with a '.do' extension and raw-nibble 232960 byte '.nib' images. The emulator
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will also attempt to read and write to compressed disk images with an additional .gz
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extension.
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.PP
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The images are raw binary dumps, containing the tracks from 0 to 34 from the
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original 5.25 disk. For the standard 143360 byte '.dsk' format each track is
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partitioned into sectors of 256 bytes, numbered from 0 to 15.
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.PP
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The raw nibblized 232960-byte images are usually made of programs that have
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non-standard formatting as a means of copy protection. The nibblized format
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attempts to preserve the non-standard format, and so defeats the copy protection
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without "cracking" the program.
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.PP
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To transfer Apple ][ diskettes into one of these formats requires that you own
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an original Apple ][. Since the drives provided by the IBM PC's are not
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compatible with the original Apple ][ drives there are no conversion programs
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directly available. If you have used other Apple ][ emulators it is most likely
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that the files will work with this emulator too. For more information on Apple
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][ disk formats and such, see
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.I Beneath Apple DOS
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by Don Worth and Pieter Lechner, published long ago by Quality Software.
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.PP
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.SH EMULATOR KEYS/MENUS
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.TP
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.I F1
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Interface to switch disk in Drive A, Slot 6. Arrow keys navigate the
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selection. If the disk highlighted is already in the drive, it will
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have a <rw1> or <r1> tag after the name indicating read/write or
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read-only access. Select this disk to eject it. To select a disk,
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you can press 'w' or RETURN to insert it into the drive. Pressing 'w'
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will attempt to open the disk as read/write (if you have permission to
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do so).
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Pressing RETURN defaults to opening the disk read-only. Press
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ESC to accept current settings and exit the menu.
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.TP
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.I F2
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Interface to switch disk in Drive B, Slot 6. Same controls as for
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.I F1.
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.TP
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.I Pause/Break key
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Pause the emulation. Hit a key to resume emulation.
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.TP
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.I F5
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Display the Apple //e keyboard layout.
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.TP
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.I F7
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Enter the Debugger console (if this support was compiled into the
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program). See the file README.debugger that came with the emulator for
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more information.
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.TP
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.I F8
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The boot/welcome screen! Just in case you need to get back here =)
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.TP
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.I F9
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Toggles between the speed and altspeed settings. This is useful to 'fastboot'
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programs, or possibly to slow them down, and then slip back to normal Apple //e
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speed.
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.TP
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.I F10
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General parameter settings menu, including the all-important QUIT option.
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You can edit most of the parameters in your
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.I .apple2
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file from this menu. Adjusting a parameter will auto-magically save it to your
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.I .apple
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preferences file.
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You can also select to calibrate/tune the PC Joystick or keypad joystick here.
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.TP
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.I Special Keys
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The key combination Ctrl-End will trigger an Apple //e reset. Ctrl-AltLeft-End
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operates just like a Ctrl-OpenApple-Reset and reboots the Apple //e. AltLeft
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and AltRight keys correspond to the OpenApple and ClosedApple keys (joystick
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buttons 0 & 1). NOTE: In //e mode try Ctrl-AltRight-End to trigger a system
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self-test. The numeric keypad and general arrow keys are also used for emulated
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joystick movement.
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.SH BUGS AND STUFF
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See the PROBLEMS file that came with the code.
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.ft R
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.SH MORE INFO
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More information is available in the online newsgroups
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.I comp.emulators.apple2,
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and
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.I comp.sys.apple2.
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.PP
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See also:
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.TP
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.I Apple //e Technical Reference Manual
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.TP
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.I Beneath Apple DOS
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.TP
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.I Beneath Apple ProDOS
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.SH AUTHORS
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See the AUTHORS file that was packaged with this software.
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