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# 1/31/2020 PLASMA 2.0 Developer Preview 4 Available!
# 7/4/2020 PLASMA 2.0 Alpha 1 Available!
[Download and read the Release Notes](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/releases)

[Change List](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/doc/Version%202.0.md#changes-in-plasma-for-20-dp-4)
[Change List](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/doc/Version%202.0.md#changes-in-plasma-for-20-alpha-1)

# 4/29/2018 PLASMA 1.2 Available!
[Download and read the Release Notes](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/doc/Version%201.2.md)
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# PLASMA Version 2.0 Developer Preview 4
# PLASMA Version 2.0 Alpha 1

Welcome to PLASMA: the Grand Unifying Platform for the Apple 1, ][, and ///.

Download the five disk images:

[PLASMA 2.0 DP4 800K Full System](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/images/apple/PLASMA2.2mg?raw=true)
[PLASMA 2.0 Alpha1 800K Full System](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/images/apple/PLASMA2.2mg?raw=true)

[PLASMA 2.0 DP4 System and ProDOS Boot](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/images/apple/PLASMA2-SYS.PO?raw=true)
[PLASMA 2.0 Alpha1 System and ProDOS Boot](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/images/apple/PLASMA2-SYS.PO?raw=true)

[PLASMA 2.0 DP4 Build Tools](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/images/apple/PLASMA2-BLD.PO?raw=true)
[PLASMA 2.0 Alpha1 Build Tools](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/images/apple/PLASMA2-BLD.PO?raw=true)

[PLASMA 2.0 DP4 Demos](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/images/apple/PLASMA2-DEM.PO?raw=true)
[PLASMA 2.0 Alpha1 Demos](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/images/apple/PLASMA2-DEM.PO?raw=true)

[PLASMA 2.0 DP4 TCP/IP network modules](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/images/apple/PLASMA2-INET.PO?raw=true)
[PLASMA 2.0 Alpha1 TCP/IP network modules](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/images/apple/PLASMA2-INET.PO?raw=true)

[PLASMA 2.0 DP4 Apple /// SOS Boot and SANE floating point modules](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/images/apple/PLASMA2-FPSOS.PO?raw=true)
[PLASMA 2.0 Alpha1 Apple /// SOS Mame Boot and SANE floating point modules](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/images/apple/PLASMA2-FPSOS.PO?raw=true)

[PLASMA 2.0 Alpha1 Apple /// Mame hard disk image](https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/images/apple/apple3.hd?raw=true)

PLASMA can be run from floppies, System in Drive 1, and Build or Demos in Drive 2. Mass storage is the recommended installation that looks like (replacing HARDISK with your volume name of choice):

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## Apple ///

The Apple /// gets the environment it always wanted: The ability to navigate the filesystem with a command line interface. The Apple /// always boots from the floppy drive, even if a hard disk is installed. The PLASMA.SOS floppy should be updated with the SOS.DRIVER configured for your machine. Once booted, type `S /HARDISK/PLASMA` (or your install directory of choice) to change to, and set, the system directory. This can be automated by creating an `AUTORUN` file on the boot floppy with the above command in it.
The Apple /// gets the environment it always wanted: The ability to navigate the filesystem with a command line interface. The Apple /// always boots from the floppy drive, even if a hard disk is installed. The PLASMA.SOS floppy should be updated with the SOS.DRIVER configured for your machine. It contains the SOS.DRIVER configured for the Apple 3 Ready-To-Run Mame environment. Once booted, type `S /HARDISK/PLASMA` (or your install directory of choice) to change to, and set, the system directory. This can be automated by creating an `AUTORUN` file on the boot floppy with the above command in it.

## PLASMA Command Line Shell

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- The documentation is sparse and incomplete. Yep, could use your help...

# Changes in PLASMA for 2.0 Alpha 1

1. Improved entry/exit for 128K Apple IIe //c

2. Improved entry for Apple ///

3. Improved entry and function calls for 16 bit VM

# Changes in PLASMA for 2.0 DP 4

1. Improved editor auto-indenting
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