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mime.types and you want to get one already with the Apple II filetypes, you can get it and save it as. Puts the word 'Shrinkit' or 'BinaryII' in the file type column as appropriate. This tells your web browser to recognize Shrinkit and Binary II files as binary. UseĪ text editor to create a file called '.mime.types' in your home directory,Īpplication/x-Shrinkit shk SHK sdk SDK Sdk ShkĪpplication/x-BinaryII bny BNY bsq BSQ bxy BXY Bsq Bny Bxy bsc BSC Bsc BQY bqy Bqy If your Internet system is running UNIX, the solution is fairly simple. This Web site was based on information from Neil Parker.

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Pin 24 is to the left of pin 25.Web Browser Download Modification Page for Apple II Web Browser Download Modification Page for Apple II Pin 25 of this connecter is at theĮnd away from the Apple's power supply. Clip the other end to pin 24 of the molex connector that connects the

Clip one end to pin 1 of the IC located at motherboard location H14, aĢ. Size is most important wire size and brands are less important. Match the size of Radio Shack #270-370 clips. Inches of 28 AWG wire and solder the connections. Connect two micro test clips together with 8 Proper display of lowercase characters in 40-column mode. Reasonably-priced 'Lowercase Character Generator' on the motherboard allows Mode, lowercase characters will appear as 'garbage' characters. However, when the program runs in 40-column When coding, you can easily enter lowercaseĬharacters into your own program's output strings with 80-column cards Most 80-column cards have firmware to read the address and display

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The Apple II must have special software without it, the II stays in 40-column II to display lowercase nor enter lowercase characters into your programs when To keep things in perspective, please note that this does not modify the Apple If the PB2Īddress is operated then the software simply makes the keyboard value Software reads the state of the address of pushbutton #2 (PB2). Then, since joysticks use pushbuttons #0 and #1, the Software supporting the modification first reads the character value at theĪddress of the keyboard. The 'Shift-Key Mod'Įxploits the address of this remaining pushbutton input. This leaves unused two handĬontrol inputs and a hand-control pushbutton input. Used by the standard game paddles and joysticks. Hand controls and three hand-control pushbuttons of which only two of each are

With the 'Shift-Key Mod', you use the shift key to signal the software from an Still use the shift key to type the regular 'shift' non-alphabetic characters, Them with a press of the Escape key or some other control character. Uppercase characters as you do on a typewriter, without the need to precede After modification, the shift key allows you to enter Software must recognize this alphabetic modification the Apple alone does notĭo it automatically. Of software recognizing this modification, there is a wide variety:Īpple Writer, most other word processing software packages, and the firmware

The most simple and least expensive addition anyone could do for their Apple Modifications are thought to be costly additions. Many it has remained nothing more than a rumor, possibly because most Probably all Apple II owners have heard of a mysterious 'Shift-Key Mod'. This article last reviewed: 26 September 1984

The report adds: 'In addition to the Bitsy Boot boot utility, the ProDOS 2.4 'floppy' includes a collection of utilities, including a MiniBas tiny BASIC interpreter, disk imaging programs to move files from physical floppies to USB and other disk storage, file utilities, and the 'Unshrink' expander for uncompressing files archived with Shrinkit.'Īpple II and II Plus: Shift-Key Modification There's also a boot utility that is under 400 bytes - taking up a single block of storage on a disk. Bitsy Bye is an example of highly efficient code: it runs in less than 1 kilobyte of RAM. The release includes Bitsy Bye, a menu-driven program launcher that allows for navigation through files on multiple floppy (or hacked USB) drives. You can test-drive ProDOS 2.4 in a Web-based emulator set up by computer historian Jason Scott on the Internet Archive. ProDOS 2.4, released on the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Apple II GS, brings the enhanced operating system to even older Apple II systems, including the original Apple ][+ don't even support lower-case characters.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Yesterday, software developer John Brooks released what is clearly a work of pure love: the first update to an operating system for the Apple II computer family since 1993.