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A2VGA Boards

Submitted by Stargeezer on January 8, 2024 - 9:26pm

Evening all:

I am considering building an A2VGA board outlined in skate323k137's the blog entry.

Five boards from PCBWay look like they will run me about $33.  Is anyone interested in splitting the cost?

I won't need 5 boards and thought this might be an option to save me and up to 4 friends a few bucks in fabrication costs.

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PS/2 keyboard adapter for Platinum //e

Submitted by softwarejanitor on January 6, 2024 - 5:33pm

Does anyone know if the Option 8 RetroConnector Keyboard Interface //e like this:

 

https://www.tindie.com/products/option8/retroconnector-keyboard-interface-for-apple-iie/#specs

 

works with a Platibum //e?  I have a Platinum //e with a keyboard that is basically unsalvageable.  I have the motherboard, case, power supply...

 

Not sure if I would need to swap out the keyboard encoder ROM to an original style //e one to make this work.

 

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videx softswitch not working

Submitted by dragos on January 5, 2024 - 4:46pm

I have a II+ with a Videx and softswitch, but I cannot get the 40 column output on the videx output.  I have triple checked the installation and it all looks correct according to the manual.  When I activate the Videx, I get the 80 column output no problem?  Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

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Building Videx compatible soft switches

Submitted by softwarejanitor on January 3, 2024 - 11:15pm

I am building these today.

 

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A2USB: Apple II Mouse Interface Card & USB Support

Submitted by MacFly on January 1, 2024 - 10:50am

I wrote a blog article on a new firmware project: A2USB. Adds USB support to the well-known A2VGA boards and emulates an Apple II Mouse Interface Card - connecting a standard USB mouse.

Currently requires a bit of tinkering - as described in the blog. Already works really well, but still needs testing on more and other machines.

Creating this forum topic for possible discussions - in case someone wanted to give this a try...

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Questions abou my new apple II

Submitted by StefanUlm on December 31, 2023 - 12:10pm

Hi everybody,

 

in my youth the Apple II was the unreachable dream. I had to settle with a ZX 81. Now i bought all the machines of my youth again (ZX81, Dragon 32, Amiga 500) and finally also got myself an Apple II europlus. It has a lot of expansion cards. For some of them I have questions that I could find no answers online.

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Lower case on the Apple II+ WITHOUT the shift mod?

Submitted by Screwtape on December 30, 2023 - 2:24am

I went back home for Christmas, and my father had retrieved my boyhood Apple II+ from storage. We originally got it second-hand, and it came with some expansion cards and some mods installed, but I was a child, so whatever the computer did was what I assumed it was supposed to do. Now I'm older and a little nostalgic, I've spent some time reading up about the Apple II+ hardware, watched some videos about how things were supposed to work, and grown curious about how my Apple II+ had been configured.

Skipping ahead to the observations:

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Building Videx compatible 80 column card

Submitted by softwarejanitor on December 26, 2023 - 5:56pm

I am building this today:

 

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Building MicroSci/Franklin FDC clones

Submitted by softwarejanitor on December 26, 2023 - 2:51pm

Here is what I am builidng today...

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Apple II and IIe power supply RIFA replacements

Submitted by Stargeezer on December 25, 2023 - 7:12pm

Merry Christmas all:

Perhaps the community can help me out here.

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