Instant Pascal: RGB Color

For the current release of Instant Pascal, the Extended 80 Column Color card is not activated at boot time. This was a deliberate design decision. Double high-res text, even with the 40 column option selected, does not look satisfactory on a Color 100 monitor (or other RGB monitors).
However, for customers who already have RGB monitors and who wish to use Instant Pascal in color, there is a pre-boot workaround to turn on the card.

From ProDOS Basic, type and save the following program:

10 D$ = CHR$(4)
20 PRINT D$;"PR#3": PRINT
30 POKE 49246,0
40 POKE 49247,0
50 POKE 49246,0
60 POKE 49247,0
70 POKE 49246,0
80 CALL 50688

LOAD the program into your IIe and place the Instant Pascal STARTUP disk in the drive configured to Slot 6, Drive 1 and RUN the program. Instant Pascal will function as usual with the addition. Text will be difficult to read.
Published Date: Feb 19, 2012