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Open/Closed-Apple + "?" + CTRL

Open zellyn opened this issue 7 years ago • 0 comments

Add tests to a2audit for:

  • open-apple forward-slash
  • open-apple shift forward-slash
  • open-apple ctrl forward-slash
  • open-apple ctrl shift forward-slash
  • closed-apple forward-slash
  • closed-apple shift forward-slash
  • closed-apple ctrl forward-slash
  • closed-apple ctrl shift forward-slash

and get them all working in OpenEmulator.

Then test the Diagnostics disk, Appleworks, and "Apple Presents the IIe" .

From Keith Palmer via email:

There's a non-graphics related peculiarity that's caught my attention, though. Knowing the program uses left-hand alt and right-hand alt as Open-Apple and Closed-Apple, I was able to complete the keyboard test section of the diagnostics disk. However, when I tried booting Appleworks, it seemed that program would only recognize its Open-Apple commands when I was pressing ctrl and left-hand alt together; the problem there is most of those commands also seem to be read as ctrl-letter combinations and the program beeps at me a lot instead of actually executing the commands.

http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/images/productivity/integrated/appleworks/v1.3/AppleWorks_v13Boot.dsk http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/images/productivity/integrated/appleworks/v1.3/AppleWorks_v13ProgramDisk.dsk

Both disks are needed to load the program.

I did notice something similar in the "Apple Presents the IIe" demonstration disk:

http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/images/masters/model_specific/Apple_Presents_the_IIe%20%281985%29.dsk

There's a module called "Apples, Apples Everywhere" (you can skip to the main menu and select it as soon as the program starts by pressing ESC) that teaches you to use the modifier keys. An exercise involves pressing Open-Apple or Closed-Apple by themselves; there, I just had to press left-hand alt or right-hand alt. At the end of the exercise, though, you're supposed to press Open-Apple and the question mark, and there I had to hold down ctrl as well as alt to get the program to recognize it, the same as in Appleworks.

zellyn avatar Apr 14 '17 16:04 zellyn