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Apple IIe Card: Add Hard Disks, Making Floppy Disks and Much More!

Submitted by Chris T on June 30, 2025 - 6:04am

Apple IIe Card: Add Hard Disks, Making Floppy Disks and Much More!

The Apple IIe card, the last great hoorah for Steve Wozniaks and Steve Jobs love child, is in my Macintosh LC475, can I add multiple large hard disks to it? Can I write out 3.5" AND more importantly 5.25" floppy disks are well? How do we easily move data onto these disks? We look at the Floppy Emu and CiderPress II. Lets dive in and make the most of this wonder card from Apple.

 

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apple ii fujinet with real drives

Submitted by acenewman on June 29, 2025 - 9:41pm

Wondering if anyone out there is using their Fujinet in conjunction with real disk drives?  I have only had my Fujinet for a couple weeks so still figuring things out.  While I am loving the Fujinet I don't want to give up the abilty to use a floppy drive if possible.  I have tired many combinations with my Rom1 iigs, disk2 controller, yellowstone card, I/O controller card and can't seem to come up with a combo that lets me boot from the Fujinet but still have a working disk drive.   If someone is doing it I would love to hear what your setup is. 

 

Thanks, Chris

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Copying files to "Beautiful Boot" disks

Submitted by VeryVon on June 28, 2025 - 10:03am

Anyone know of a utility that will successfully copy (binary) files to a Beautiful Boot (BB) disk?  I know I can format a disk and put my binaries on there, then “beautify” it with the BB utility, but what if I want to copy a new file on there?  The docs say “Beautiful Boot resides on track 0, the disk’s VTOC is updated to free tracks 1, 2, and most of track 17 for more space.”

 

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IIGS not starting

Submitted by pcbishaf on June 24, 2025 - 10:12pm

I have been working on and off  on this IIGS motherboard.  I have got it to the point where the reset voltage is holding steady at +5 volts as it should be.  Mostly did this by swapping out some parts.  Now, the computer "starts" but hangs immediately.  I have included a screenshot.  

 

Does anyone have any idea what is happening?

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Apple II Programming - GOSUB GOTO RETURN

Submitted by DrkStarr on June 24, 2025 - 7:53pm

Hello. I'm trying to do some programming on the Apple II+, and I know that the stack can get weird between GOTO and GOSUB.

What I'm trying to do is GOSUB - GOTO - RETURN. The GOTO is in an IF. It looks something like this:

 

<code>

10 X = 1

20 GOSUB 50

30 END

50 IF X = 1 THEN 100

60 RETURN

100 X = X + 1

110 RETURN

</code>

 

I'm doing this sequence over and over again to display numbers, and I'm wondering if doing something like this would blow up the memory at some point.

- D 

 

 

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Apple II plus Dealer's Diagnostics

Submitted by dorkbert on June 23, 2025 - 6:06pm

Does anyone know how the ROM checksum is computed in Apple II plus Dealer's Diagnostic?

 

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talk about ruining a good thing

Submitted by dorkbert on June 22, 2025 - 5:55pm

ruining a perfectly good Apple II S/N 2569 chassis.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/317020875324?

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Getting a GGLabs A2SCSI card working on a IIGS

Submitted by Chris T on June 22, 2025 - 5:38pm

Hey, I am relatively new to the IIgs, and in my enthusiasm to get it up to the level of an Amiga 2000, I decided to buy a SCSI card, and ideally install GSOS to a hard disk and boot from it.This seems to be, possibly a faster method than booting from a smart port disk?

So to do this I bought an A2SCSI card from GGLabs a couple of years back, and only now am I installing it, as I also have an Apple Squeezer card.

 

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Assistance with cc65 to test new functionality

Submitted by russell-harper on June 22, 2025 - 5:28pm

Greetings,

I'm working on implementing conio cgets in cc65 https://github.com/cc65/cc65/pull/2705. The code reviewer has asked that I confirm functionality in at least Apple ][, Atari 800, and C64.

Looking at all the options for cc65 to compile Apple ][ programs https://cc65.github.io/doc/apple2.html, I'm not sure which to use. Can I get some advice on what the best options are?

Also, if I have an executable, would it be okay to post or link to it here to ask users to test?

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QC10-20 manual

Submitted by Wayne on June 21, 2025 - 10:57pm

There’s already a scan of the Quark QC10 manual out there but this one is a year newer. It’s mostly the same but has a few more pages, has links and is searchable

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13CFKZVtz1WjArSxaNX8M9d1DhHDeWULG/view?usp=drive_link

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