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My limping Apple II+ - yet some kind of hardware problem

Submitted by jaksel on January 13, 2007 - 12:21pm

Yesterday I finally got the NTE6889 transceiver ICs, that were going to replace the faulty 8T28 IC's in my Apple II+. However, when trying to boot from disks, my Apple still crashes. And NO, it is not a disk problem. I have tried moving the disk drive + floppy to another Apple, which can boot fine.

My Apple will crash only after reading the floppy disk for some time. Different floppy disks will make it crash differently, but it is always the same type of crash for a certain disk. E.g. if I boot my DOS 3.3 system disk I get this:

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Difference between european/american Apple IIe ?

Submitted by jaksel on January 5, 2007 - 8:27am

I am looking around for an Apple IIe, but it struck me that I don't know about differences between american and european IIe models, except for the AC rating of the power supply. Are they identical, or can the american model be mod'ed to fit european video standards (as on the II+)?

Anyone happens to have an old IIe for sale?

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looking for Wrath Of Denethenor.

Submitted by A2forever on January 4, 2007 - 7:35am

hi all , does anyone have a working copy of Wrath Of Denethenor? I cant get the one I have to get past the title page , I am using Applewin at the present time , the most recent version . if anyone has one , can you please get back to me .

thanks.

a2forever

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Looking for game - "Conan the barbarian"

Submitted by jaksel on January 4, 2007 - 7:08am

I have a floppy disk with "Conan the barbarian", which became corrupted maybe 10 years ago. I would really like to play this game again, but I cannot find it on the internet. Anyone here who has a copy (image file or on disk)?

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Cassette input/output to PC's mic & headphones

Submitted by jaksel on January 2, 2007 - 7:38am

I was trying to record data from my Apple IIe on a PC, by connecting the Apple's cassette in/out to the PC's mic input and headphones output. Mostly because I wantet to save some stuff, and I had no tape recorder. But I could never do a proper recording/playback of the data. The PC did record some noisy modem-like audio, which sounded OK, but the Apple never managed to read back the data properly (I think it failed a few times with a checksum error, and a few times without error).

Any suggestions? Shouldn't it be possible to do this?

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nOObie questions: mouse and ethernet and ISA

Submitted by capybara on January 1, 2007 - 9:18pm

1. mouse: the DB9 apple II mouse is not compatible with a
"generic" DB9 mouse? does it need an adapter?
2. is the ISA slots compatible with a generic ISA card, so that its just a ____ question of drivers to make any ISA card work?
3. follow up to question 2 - are there any drivers for common ISA ethernet
____ cards like the 3c509 or the NE2000 ?

thx, capybara Smile

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Omnidrive

Submitted by bd1308 on January 1, 2007 - 8:22pm

I remember going into my computer lab (i was a lab admin in 4th grade Wink ) and seeing about 13 apple IIe's connected to a HUGE drive called the Omnidrive. Does anybody know about this thing? All of the apples connect to it, and upon bootup, the omnidrive boots and displays a login prompt of sorts.

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first two production apple ][ boxes

Submitted by capybara on December 30, 2006 - 12:49pm

where did i see this:

"if anyone can name the 5 differences beetween the first two production
apple ][ boxes (or boards) they win a free.....(something)
Hint: the answer is somewhere on the internet."

i cant remember where i saw that, just recently!

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Apple II+ video - color only works in games, not in Applesoft?

Submitted by jaksel on December 29, 2006 - 6:17pm

Sorry for posting another video topic, but I have scratched my head quite a bit over this new problem...

I have an LCD flat-TV connected to my Apple II+ and Apple IIe, and I get 4-color graphics when playing games (e.g. Wavy navy - what a great game!) on the IIe (I cannot get disk drive working on II+). But when I try plotting graphics in Applesoft on either II+ or IIe, I get striped blocks in low-graphics, and only white in high-graphics. E.g. I tried there short programs:

10 GR
20 FOR I=0 TO 15
30 PLOT 1, I
40 NEXT I
50 END

and

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Apple II+ video type? Damaged :-(

Submitted by jaksel on December 28, 2006 - 9:27am

I am looking around for a color monitor that I can plug in, but I am not sure exactly what types of monitors I can use. The Apple manual says the video is NTSC, but can be modified (mine is) to suit European standard CCIR monitors (b/w or color). But to get PAL, you need special hardware.

So are there any suitable CCIR color monitors for Apple II+ available today?

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