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Technical Reference Manual for //e Platinum

Submitted by granitepenguin on September 26, 2021 - 12:55am

I've been hunting around for a while now and have only found the IIe technical reference manual First printing (1985) on every site where I've come across it so far.  While it covers the majority of the IIe Enhanced information of the Platinum, I see it does not talk about the CF ROM (which I'm assuming is the single-chip combination of the older CD/EF ROMs).  As I'm just starting out, that's the only glaring difference I've noticed while poking around, but I assume there are probably other differences I have not learned about yet.

 

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FloppyEmu vs. CFFA3000/Booti

Submitted by Gumdoc on September 23, 2021 - 1:44pm

I have a FE but have been hearing good things about both the CFFA3000 and Booti (yes I know they are often backordered). As a //e user and hopefully a IIgs owner soom, what do the CFFA3000 and Booti give me that I don't have with the FE? Were Apple II programs with multiple disk design to work off a hard drive or would I not really gain anything with hard drive emulation?

 

Thanks for any help.

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IIGS Questions

Submitted by Gumdoc on September 22, 2021 - 5:14pm

Hi All,

Loving my //e but I'm thinking I want to add a IIGS to the mix. I want to try to figure out what will I need on top of my current setup to get it working, as most IIGS systems I have seen for sale are incomplete.

My //e has a color composite monitor, DuoDisk (with the 19-pin connector), two Disk ][ drives (with the 20-pin card), FloppyEmu, and a null modem connection from my Super Serial Card with the RetroFloppy cables to my PC for ADTPro.

I assume I need the following for the IIGS, what am I missing? :

 

1. RGB monitor with cable

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Something to read

Submitted by wishtoknow on September 20, 2021 - 2:44pm

Does anyone have a copy of the following:

Inside the Apple IIGS by Gary Bond

Mastering the Apple IIGS Toolbox by Dan Gookin and Morgan Davis

Compute’s Guide to Sound & Graphics
on the Apple IIGS by William B Sanders

Elementary Assembly Language for the
Apple IIGS and the 65816 by William B Sanders

The elementary Apple IIGS by William B Sanders

The Programmer’s online companion
Apple IIGS version 1.0 by Steve Capps

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IIgs Teach App doesn't restore proper video mode when quitting and returning to GSOS

Submitted by mkinn on September 19, 2021 - 8:16pm

After adding a LOT of init's, CDEV's. and Finder extras, I screwed up the teach application. I tried to re-install it, buit no dice, same problem.

Anybody seen this before, and is there a CDEV that I can use to restore the proper 640 desktop graphics mode without exiting to the monitor?

If not, how can I do that WITH the monitor? Very hard to find this info.

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Did I get scammed?

Submitted by coolk on September 19, 2021 - 11:50am

I recently bought a working Apple IIgs and can't shake the feeling that I grossly overpaid.

Specs:

Woz edition cpu

monitor

3.5" disk drive

Keyboard & mouse

AE Transwarp Accelerator

4mb ram

focus drive

Joystick

 

I paid $1500 for this. Is it too much?

 

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Boot Sequence

Submitted by Gumdoc on September 18, 2021 - 8:02pm

Hi All,

 

Was wondering about how the //e handles booting. I currently have two controller cards, a 19-pin that I use with either my DuoDisk or Floppy Emu, and I just picked up an older Disk ][ controller card, the one with the 20-pin connectors. If I keep the 19-pin controller in slot 6, and put the 20-pin on in slot 5, will the //e ever boot from the slot 5 disks if there's nothing in the slot 6 drives? I know I can probably do a PR#5 command to get it to boot from slot 5, but was curious if the system will look beyond whatever is in slot 6 if both drives are empty.

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Apple II Bank Switching

Submitted by MicroCoreLabs on September 18, 2021 - 4:20pm

I am trying to implement bank switching in my drop-in 6502 emulator, the MCL65+, to allow both the RAM and ROM to be implemented in the microcontroller's emulated 6502's rather than use the memories on the Apple II+ motherboard... and I seem to be missing something... The MCL65+ is a C emulation of the 6502 running on a microcontroller on a board which can replace the physical 6502 on the motherboard.  I have implemented the three memory blocks: ROM, Bank1(12K), and Bank2(4K) and I snoop 6502 read accesses to the 0xC080-0xC08B addresses to switch between them.

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keyboard data and strobe workings

Submitted by dfxgordon on September 17, 2021 - 7:12pm

I have a code that is supposed to work on a II plus or a IIe, and I want to use the soft switch at $C00E to make sure the alternate character set is off (required for flashing text).

It seems this should be OK, but then I noticed in the Apple IIe reference manual it says "in the original Apple II, memory locations from $C000 to $C01F were used only for the keyboard data and strobe functions."  This way this is phrased got me worried.

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"Essential" documentation recommendations

Submitted by granitepenguin on September 17, 2021 - 1:19pm

What do you consider "essential" documentation to pick up?  I'm thinking stuff like User Guide for whatever system (IIe Platinum, in my case), but what other guides, books, etc are out there that you'd recommend for someone starting from zero?

 

Thanks

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