]> http://www.applefritter.com en http://www.applefritter.com/node/24251 Has anyone ever heard of the program "Fix-It" by Random House for Apple II? I used to have a copy and unknowingly threw it out. Here is the only article I can find about it http://amapedia.amazon.com/view/Fix+It/id=834338 If someone knows where there is a disk image of this, I would greatly appreciate it. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:50:06 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/24250 Greetings: I am just now dusting off my old Apple IIe and wanted to hook up a modem and my imagewriter ii printer to it. I have one super serial card and was wondering if I need to install a second SS card in slot one for the printer or even if that is possible or is there another interface I should consider. I would need to acquire said interface as well :-) ALso I am looking for the super drive controller to control my 3.5 drives as well as my 5.25 drives. Also I will be hooking a focus IDE card to the system with a drive at some point in the future. My local Apple II users group meeting is on August 11 (2009) and if I haven't found all my information prior to that I plan to bring the system to the meeting and see if I can obtain help there but I would like to get the information and parts prior to that date. Appreciate any help on this! Thanks, Mike -- Lawrence, Kansas Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:47:53 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/24249 You: Caught in a dark well of despair, you've struggled for years with one inescapable weight on your shoulders: the lonely burden of carrying around an Apple Newton eMate AC adapter. Unable to find a home for this obscure bit of electric ephemera, it has been a constant reminder of your inability to to connect with anyone else with enough depth that they would take this oddball charger off of your hands and out of your life. Heck, even your dog/cat/fish/mom now looks at you funny, as though they can sense the weight of that Apple Newton eMate AC adapter pressing down upon you, and they don't wish to get crushed along with you. Me: The yin to your yang, the alpha to your omega, I too have known the endless sorrow brought on by the Apple Newton eMate AC adapter... but in my case, it is the desire [i]for[/i] this gadget that has kept me down! For years I've held my two Apple Newton eMate 300s in my hands, looking longingly upon their translucent green cases, their chubby styli, their unpowered LCD screens, and longed for the day when untold numbers of electrons would go crashing through their circuits, bringing them (and me!) back to life. If you feel like we have the potential for a (ahem) spark, please let me know. Our relationship may be brief, and entirely based on the one-time sale or trade of an Apple Newton eMate 300 AC charger / adapter, but for the rest of our days we'll know that we fulfilled some longing in another... even if just for an hour (or however long it takes for an eMate to charge). Huxley Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:28:42 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/24248 Hello, Im getting into 8-bit hardware development and I have found that my stash of IIgs parts are missing from my storage unit from a break-in. With that in mind, I'm on a lookout for IIgs units (ROM3) with 3.5 inch drives. Because the monitor was so heavy (still in the box and only has a couple hours of on-time) it was the only thing still there. I'm still in college, but I enjoy 8-bit machines and being able to develop software on a IIgs would be a fun activity, plus I'm starting to get into making some hardware cards for the IIgs (after I figure out how the accelerators work) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:49:36 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/24247 As it is the native resolution of Double Hi-Res graphics and 80 column text, this projector is perfect for helping to create the portable Apple //c+ unit. And at 10 full lumens! [color=blue][url=http://www.macworld.com/article/141434/2009/06/milipro.html]Projector[/url][/color] Mutant Pie Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:43:28 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/24244 For sale is a TAM with a 500mhz G3 upgrade, 128mb RAM, CommSlot Ethernet, an installed external Monitor connector, a 120gb 7200 RPM Hitachi drive with 9.1 on the drive, and it has been modified so that it will display millions of colors at 800x600 on the internal display. It has the remote, an original CD in the shrink-wrap, and the "fat back" pre-installed. It is ready to go, is in Near-Mint shape with No Nicks! No Sub-woofer issues! It does not have the original small back, and it does not have the pen-set. I never used the original keyboard, and don't know where it is. I always used an Apple Ergo Keyboard with it. The 5300 style keyboard it used is a spongy POS. Asking $1300.00 or best offer, otherwise it goes on Yahoo Japan. :) Pics available. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:10:11 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/24242 Hi, I'm trying to get some old Black and White game disk images on my Mac Classic with OS 7.5.3 but here's the problem. I know you first have to format a disk for Mac which I am doing with the program TransMac. It formats the disk and creates a folder for the files to be put in on the disk which I am doing. The disk reads fine in my Mac classic but the problem is the system can never figure out what kind of file it is I am trying to run so it will never run the program or game disk image. I know you have to unzip the disk image with Suffit first and then it usually becomes a .sea file or just a raw file. I then take the unzipped .sea file and put in in the folder created on the floppy formatted for Mac. When I go to try to run the .sea file or raw file on my Mac it reads the disk fine but the file is always an unknown extension and it can never find the program to run the file. Please let me know what to do I really want to get some software on my Classic. Also where is the best place to find B & W disk images for the Classic and what file extensions can it instantly read if I put them on a mac formatted disk because I can't seem to get it to run any of the extension that I keep reading are Mac format. Thanks Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:03:59 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/24241 I actually have had this iPod for a while, but I use my touch for everything. It has a brand new battery and a 20gig hard drive. I am about to leave for college and I gave my cube to my dad, and this ipod only has a firewire cord and my HP laptop renders this iPod useless for me. Makes a good external hard drive for the cheap! If you have something to trade, holler. Otherwise, just make an offer. Thanks! Thomas Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:37:23 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/24240 Hello! I have a 17inch iMac G5, and some vertical thin lines are appeared recently, but the G5 runs perfectly and I love work with it. I though to plug-in another screen when the lines will get worst but it's not the best idea because will looks ugly... so the idea is to change the case. I was thinking to put everything is inside the G5 in a horizontal case and than use it as a support for a new screen. Does anyone knows if it's possible move all the hardware from the original case to another? and will work without the original screen? Thanks... Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:59:47 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/24239 Hi I am installing 7.5.3 OS on a Mac Classic HD but I want to completely format the HD first. After you click continue the only options are, Easy Install, Custom Install & Custom Remove but none of these options format the harddrive for you. Do I need a different system disk to be able to format the HD first? There is a key command in the installer to do a clean install but again it only adds a new system folder or you can choose to update the existing one but it doesn't format the HD for you. What do I need to do? Thanks! Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:36:28 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/24238 looking for a Apple //e Enhanced Emblem that goes over the power light indicator? This is the only thing that I have not been able to get , and this would complete my //e enhanced system , also I am looking for some original Disk ][ Drive #'s for my driver. If anyone has any or knows about where I can get any of these , any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Patrick. A2forever Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:55:20 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/24237 There was a time when I wanted to save pictures in Firefox or Safari all I had to do was hold down option and then click. It was a like a left click on the PC mouse. A menu would appear to copy, save, etc. Now this is not working. What do I need to do to have this working again? I have two computers doing this now, both G4. I'm thinking some recent update must have disabled this feature. Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:52:50 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/24236 Okay, I've been a hard core Apple II/II+ and owned one since its initial sales in the 70's. But I am curious on wha are the differences between these models... II+.IIe. IIc. IIGS. and ///?? Thanks -RocketScientists Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:22:54 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/24235 Digital Forest is making some upgrades to their data center on Friday. We should experience about 15 minutes of downtime, in the late morning, while the server is moved. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:19:23 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/24234 Hello all, I recently picked up an iMac G5 that was described in the ad as "nonfunctional" I guess I got really lucky, because when I got it home I popped the back, reset the PMU (by removing the 2032 and pressing the internal power button, found through Google, please correct me if this isn't how to reset the PMU) and threw some RAM in. Wonderfully, it powered up. Now the strange part starts. It wouldn't boot off of CD if you put in the disc and held 'c' it would only boot off CD once it got to the question mark Mac screen and you put the disc in, otherwise the Superdrive would kick out the disc. If you put the disc in after the question mark Mac screen, it would boot right up, happy as could be. I threw an 80GB Western Digital SATA hard drive and 1GB of Kingston RAM in it (in addition to the 512MB of Samsung RAM that was already in there and booting perfectly) and then it started getting temperamental. It would start, Apple chime and all, with the back casing on, but it wouldn't get past that point, no matter how long you waited. No VGA would ever appear, and it, to the best of my observations, would not boot off the optical drive. Take the case off, and it would chime and VGA would pop up. At this point I started taking note of the length limitation on the RAM, and perhaps the fact that it could be shorting on the CPU heatsync. Measuring the RAM proved that it was slightly less than the maximum 31.75mm tall. 8 hours later: The iMac won't start up at all. Case on or off, the LEDs are as follows: o--- Pressing the power button causes them to go to this, but only for a fraction of a second: oo-- And then they return to: o--- I've checked all the capacitors, both on the logic board and in the power supply, none of them are bulging and they all look as good as they would've brand new. I've modified and ATX power supply to give the iMac what it needs (aside from the 24V for the LCD inverter) and it powered up perfectly on that, however it did not go into disk target mode when holding down the 't' key. I replaced the ATX supply with the original, and it started up once, but this time without the third LED lit (LCD communication) As it stands right now, neither the Apple PSU (which I've hotwired and tested all the voltages on, it's good) nor the modded ATX PSU (which I also measured voltages on) will power up the machine. If you press the power button, it will power the two left LEDs for a fraction of a second, and a faint clicking noise can be heard, and then the computer goes dead again. I'm just unsure of how all this happened. No static discharges occurred, and the unit was unplugged when I was doing any work inside, aside from having the back case off to test the RAM issue. I know the symptoms sound like they may be blown/bulging caps, but all the caps are PERFECT. The power issue sounds like either a PSU or a cap issue, but given that I've tried with two PSUs and the same issue arises, I'm just unsure. Are there any capacitors on the opposite side of the board? I haven't removed the board yet to look. I've replaced blown caps on PCs before, so I'm sure none of these are bulging/blown, and I've done modifications to iMac G3s and PowerMac G4s before, and the ONLY other time I've experienced something similar to this was when I had a G4 "Mystic" and my +28V source was dead. Attached picture is without the stock PSU inside the iMac, if you were wondering what was missing from it. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:12:04 -0700