Flex Text (Apple II, 5 1/4" Disk) Beagle Bros - 1982 USA, Canada Release

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Flex Text
Retail Packaging cover Flex Text.
Product ID BEAGL0019
Platform(s) Apple II
Packaging Plastic Bag
Media 5 1/4" Disk
Copyright date 1982
Publisher(s) Beagle Bros
Developer(s) Mark Simonsen
Category(s) Utilities
Country of Origin United States of America

Description from the packaging.

70-Column Hi-Res Text Utility by Mark Simonsen

Unlocked,Unprotected and Customizable

VARIABLE-WIDTH TEXT: Flex Text lets your Basic programs produce normal 40-column text characters as well as EXPANDED and CONDENSED characters on the same screen, giving you a wide range of 20- to 70-CHARACTERS per text line. NO HARDWARE is required.

NORMAL APPLESOFT COMMANDS: Flex Text understands normal Applesoft commands, Including Home, Inverse, Normal, HTAB 1 THROUGH 70, and Vtab 24. Text window poke-commands are also supported. Flex Text is completely compatible with Synergistic's Program Line Editor and G.P.L.E.

ADD GRAPHICS TO TEXT (or Text to Graphics): In effect, you are able to HPLOT Hi-Res lines on your text screen layouts or type on your HI-Res drawings!

EXISTING PROGRAMS can be run under Flex Text control. Just boot Flex Text and run your Applesoft program. (Note: Some large programs may overwrite the hi-res screen and require extra manipulation. complete instructions are included.)

UPPER & LOWER CASE: No hardware Is required to produce attractive upper and lower case on the screen from your programs. In any width, of course!

RE-DEFINABLE CHARACTERS: Any text character may be redrawn with Flex Text's APPLE CHARACTER EDITOR, and stored on disk and/or in memory, giving you full control over previously fixed- format letters, numbers and symbols.

EASY TO USE: Just boot and go. Toggle between Apple's "normal" text screen and both HI-Res pages at will.

PLUS FREE PEEKS & POKES 11 x 17 WALL CHART INSIDE The most useful Apple PEEKS, POKES, POINTERS and CALLS on one big handy reference poster An Indispensable Apple programming tool!

System Requirements

DOS 3.3
Required RAM 48K
Supported Video 70-column text requires a monitor (instead of a TV)

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