Apple II

The keyboard on my Franklin ACE 1000 suddenly started having dead keys.  Working through the troubleshooting checklist in the SAMS guide, it became clear that the special capacitative-keyswitch IC had fried.

As a replacement IC doesn't appear to be available, I designed a replacement in KiCAD that uses CherryMX keyswitches and osiweb's Unified Retro Keyboard ASCII interface.  I've yet to source proper replacement keycaps, so I'm using a random set I found on Taobao, but it is otherwise working well.

Hi!  Earlier today, I published a new release of my AdvSkel65 program for cc65.  It is a text adventure skeleton code around which one can build a text adventure.  Two of its targets are for a 64k or 128k Apple2enh using ProDOS, but it also supports CBM and Atari XL computers.  It is at c65 additions - Manage /game at SourceForge.net.  Also there is a low-end version, AdvSkelVic65, but it doesn't support the Apple2.  Try it out!

Hey Folks,

I have an Apple IIc here with a dead Voltage Converter. (Not the external PSU, the internal card that slots into an edge connector).

The system is not booting with it in, but thanks to having a spare, I know the problem is the Voltage Converter, not the system itself.

I'm trying to find details (Pinouts etc etc) on this unit so I can start troubleshooting it.

It's not the same one as in the SAM's guide to the Apple IIc, to make things difficult. 

I'd even settle for just a pinout of that edge connector...

Hello:

I recently acquiired a complete Apple IIc system to add to my growing collection of 8-bit computers. A few years back, I had acquired a Apple IIe. I had read back then that I should not trust the old poewr supply in the IIe, so I sent it off to be updated. Now that I have the brick power supply that comes with the Apple IIc, I'm asking if the same recommendation applies to the IIc power supply.

Should I replace the Apple IIc power supply? I can get a new one form 8bitclassics for $26 plus tax and shipping.

Thank you!

Joe