Running UCSD Pascal on an Apple II

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_wco.com>
Date: Wed Jan 28 13:35:26 1998

On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Huw Davies wrote:

> One of the seminal articles I remember reading in Byte (in the good old
> days :-)
> was one by Carl Helmers talking about setting up an Apple II to run UCSD
> Pascal. I'm slowly assembling all the necessary bits but I seem to remember
> that to run UCSD Pascal you needed the "Euro+" Apple II. Can anyone confirm
> this? Preferably someone running UCSD Pascal on an Apple II...

I believe the issue is that UCSD Pascal requires the Applesoft ROMs, which
the older II's did not have. I believe the Euro+ was simply the European
version of the Apple II+ which came with Applesoft ROMs. UCSD Pascal also
requires 64K and thus requires a 16K "Language" card.

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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