Apple II

A2 Europlus : PAL image has green background

Submitted by CedsRepairs on July 11, 2022 - 10:29am

Helloooo girls,

 

Still with my A2+ repair,

I've got my unit "working" (always with this thin vertical lines problem) but now I'm trsting the PAL Encoder card.

 

On both a color CRT and an LCD, the display has a weird green tint background (the black background of text modes is green )

Apart from that the colors look okay in test softwares

 

Is this a know issue ? It knida looks like the display is set too bright but I'm not sure if there is a brightness setting somewhere on the card

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II plus upgrade questions (Ultrawarp, RomX)

Submitted by skate323k137 on July 9, 2022 - 10:21pm

I just got my first II plus and so far things are going pretty well.

 

I've upgraded the PSU, and I put in a ROMX. The old ROM under the keyboard was a dianetics lowercase ROM, but I pulled that to install the ROMX completely. Presumably due to changing that ROM, I found intermittent boot behaviour with the mystery card in slot 3 which appears to be a generic 80 column card w/no cables. I pulled the (presumed) 80 column card, and things are pretty good. 

 

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Dynacomp 605-5001

Submitted by mochatea396 on July 9, 2022 - 11:50am

Hello group,

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Making 5.25 Disks--Follow Up

Submitted by nd2003grad on July 7, 2022 - 7:06pm

Hi All!

 

I posted a while ago about making Apple IIGS disks in general and have basically solved that problem with what I have.  I have an unusual setup in that I don't have a Floppy Emu, I have a prototype smartport device that is capable of 4X32mb HD images and that's about it.  So, to make 3.5 disks I merely converted the images to .po and then copied in GS/OS.  Worked like a charm especially for games that need to run from startup or don't work from HD image/aren't present on HD images for some reason.  So, great--that worked.

 

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DOS 3.2 issue solved (Now on 16 sector disks)

Submitted by mochatea396 on July 7, 2022 - 2:03pm

I decided to post a new thread on this subject rather than going to the bottom of my old post and adding to it.  I have attached 2 files that I made which are DOS 3.1 and DOS 3.2 system masters on 16 SECTOR DISKS. These images can be written with ADTPRO like you would write any other 5.25 disk. Both have been tested in my integer basic Rev0. Since they are integer basic disks they will NOT boot in a iie.

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Random question about Super Serial Cards

Submitted by profdc9 on July 7, 2022 - 11:19am

I have a question about Super Serial Card support on software such as ProTERM, Ascii Express, Agate, ADTPro, etc.

Does the software use the ROM on the card, or even check for the ROM on the card, when using the Super Serial Card?  Most of the logic on the SSC is to handle the paging of the ROM banks, and if the ROM is not needed for most software, a vastly simplified card with just a 65SC51 and line drivers could be used.  It seems to me for software that has its own drivers the 65SC51 registers would be accessed directly and the ROM would not be necessary.

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Super Serial Card Layout

Submitted by profdc9 on July 7, 2022 - 12:38am

For those that are interested, I revised Joshua Thompson's Super Serial Card build.  I revised it to be 2 layer rather than 4 layer, and to use a 1.8432 MHz crystal and Pierce oscillator rather than a self-contained oscillator.

The project is a fork of the original project at:

 

http://www.github.com/profdc9/ssc

 

and the original is at

 

https://github.com/jmthompson/ssc

 

 

 

 

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How to Record Sound while playing games

Submitted by Floppy Deep Dive on July 6, 2022 - 8:46pm

I'm new to the Apple IIe World so I'm hoping there is an easy answer.

 

I'm recording my gameplay and I have no problem recording video but how do I record the sound?

 

Thanks, 

FFD

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Apple RGB color Monitor for Apple IIgs modded from 110 to 220V

Submitted by XLV2K on July 6, 2022 - 3:31pm

Greetings. I want to get an Apple RGB color monitor for my IIgs. They are very hard to find in the EU area, with EU 220-240V specs. So I was wondering, is it possible to get one meant for USA market, 110-120V spec, and mod it to 220-240V? What would that entail? I know I can use a step-down transformet but I would like to do a permanent internal mod. Is it possible? Are there any guides etc around? Thanks for your answers.

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Making your Apple II useful as a *nix terminal

Submitted by bus_error on July 4, 2022 - 2:26pm

Hi all,

 

In my spare time, I've been messing around with getting my II+ talking with a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian (a Debian Linux distrib) as a terminal. To my surprise, I have actually carved out some success in doing so, despite the II+ being more or less barely able to do so.

 

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