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Replacing all ROMs in Apple II Plus with one EPROM

Submitted by tony123dean on June 6, 2020 - 10:41pm

I got tired of my Apple II Plus not booting every time I pulled it out of the garage every 10 years, usually due to the decrepit socketed ROMs.

I came up with a relatively simple mod to replace all the ROMs (Applesoft and Integer sets) with one EPROM.

Made a video of the process here:

https://youtu.be/W465C0v2_mY

Hope somebody finds this helpful some day,

-td

 

 

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Applied Engineering PC Transporter and Drives

Submitted by booter on June 6, 2020 - 5:42pm

 

Hello,

First off, first post here, learning a lot from this group!

I recently acquired an Apple IIe that has a PC Transporter card, an AE dual 3.5" drive and an AE single 5.25". The computer runs fine with the card installed in slot 7. The drives have not been tested due to not having a PC or PC disks.  What's a fair price to ask for the card and drives? Thanks

 

 

 

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Drive //c Write Protect Issue

Submitted by nick3092 on June 6, 2020 - 11:01am

I recently picked up a Drive //c for my Apple //c, and found that it always thinks the disk is write protected.  I did some research, and I see you can wire in a switch to override this.  I'm not sure I want to do that at this point yet, but would like to troubleshoot a little further.

 

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Please help identifying my clone

Submitted by pcbastler on June 5, 2020 - 3:31pm

Hi,

 

I got an Apple II (or II+) clone.

 

I'd like to know more about it, as I would like to restore it. There is no badge or label on it. The ROMs are 6 2716 eproms. I took some pictures of it:

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Anyone willing and able to produce floppy disks in Australia?

Submitted by CheshireNoir on June 5, 2020 - 4:31am

Hi All,

If I provided media, would anyone in Aus be able to write out some diagnostics disks for me? I'll cover postage and pay media and any other out of pocket expenses.

I'm particularly after the Apple II+ Confidence disk, the Apex II diagnostics disk and Apple Cillin II.

(All are available from ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/disk_utils/diagnostics )

 

(If this kind of request is not allowed, let me know and I'll remove it immediately)

 

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Floppy Emu firmware update

Submitted by css on June 4, 2020 - 4:51am

Just an FYI for those of us that have BMOW's Floppy Emu, there's a new firmware update which adds some features:

 

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2020/05/27/floppy-emu-update-favorites-lisa-fixes-and-more/

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Steve Wozniak actual signature...

Submitted by tradeya on May 30, 2020 - 1:00pm

Just grabbed this on Ebay. I always see the "Woz" signature, but, haven't seen his full name signature. Does anyone know how rare a full Steve Wozniak signature is? I thought it was cool to add to my collection. Now I need a Steve Jobs autograph! :). Sorry for the post in the Apple II forum but it seems to be the most active. In any case, I'm still looking for an additional Ventless Rev. 0 if anyone has one for sale. Thanks!

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/373068337370

 

 

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ProDOS, 8 Drives per Slot...

Submitted by Timelord on May 30, 2020 - 8:32am

From what I can see, ProDOS now supports 8 drives/volumes per slot without remapping. How precisely would I set up more than four volumes on (e.g.) a SCSI device, when the Apple II SCSI utils only support two drives (four on a //gs in slot 5)?

 

Does this also mean that I coul daisy-chain four 3.5 drives and four 5.25 drives?

 

How precisely would I set up a system to support this? It isn't very thouroughly explained. 

 

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BASIC.SYSTEM Changelog (since 1.5)?

Submitted by Timelord on May 30, 2020 - 8:15am

I've been looking for a changelog for the ProDOS BASIC.SYSTEM (and an updated manual) that covers versions > 1.5, the last official Apple version. I do not see a changelog specific to this on the ProDOS website, and the current version now is 1.7.x, so, what has changed, and what is new?

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Apple II Desktop: Integrated Applications and FSTs; v2.x?

Submitted by Timelord on May 30, 2020 - 7:34am

Have any of you heard of, or used any programmes designed for integration with Apple II Desktop (originally MouseDesk)?

 

What I would like to see, at a minimum, in the future--which probably means writing it--are the following:

 

ANSI Text Editor: It'd be nice to support line numbers, and some other features such as find/replace. I suppose I could try porting something lie SciTE. 

If done right, this could output a .BAS file, so you could write an AppleSoft BASIC programme in A2D, export as .BAS, then run it in A2D.

 

Filesystem Support:

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