On 11 Sep 98, at 0:12, Eric Smith wrote:
> Wow, it's pretty rare to find anyone who remembers Apex, since it wasn't
> ever all that popular. It was distributed by Apparat, and they were more
> famous for NewDOS/80 for the TRS-80 Model I and Model III.
That's the one. Still have it and the manuals too. I've always had
an interest in different operating systems and played with
NewDOS/80 on a Model I as well. They had ads for Apex and
XPL0 and Focal IIRC which I always wanted but was a poor college
student at the time. Finally picked up the Apex and XPL0 at a
discount during some going out of business sale. Didn't have the
Focal so I never got it. Besides OSs I really enjoy playing with
different languages too.
BTW, I also have a copy of another OS for the Apple // called
CP/A. How many here have see that one?
> The 16-sector hack should have been quite easy, since the source code of
> the disk driver was printed in the Apex manual. I don't recall if it was
> provided on disk. Apex used Apple's RWTS routines sans some of the
> formatting code, in order to free up the page between $bf00 and $bfff for
> other uses. If you'd gotten in touch with us, we would have sent you a
> 16-sector update.
Yes, it wasn't real hard. I looked through the code in the manual
and parts of the OS and then stole code out of Apple's 16-sector
RTWS to replace the parts of the 13-sector one that Apex used.
Still have it around here too I believe.
> fewer than a dozen. I no longer live in Colorado, but whenever I go back
> to visit family and friends I try to attend a meeting.
Hmm, I have family in Golden and my mom has a place up in Idaho
Springs, maybe I should look them up sometime when I'm visiting
up there.
Seems to me I've seen a ref around that a later version of Apex
which is available at some site. Don't recall off hand though. Also
seem to recall something about working with it on a PC but that
just might be the Dr. Pepper affecting my mind.
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Received on Thu Sep 10 1998 - 21:48:39 BST