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Restoring an Apple II+ clone Startup label problem

Submitted by Wofy1970 on August 27, 2020 - 5:15am

Hi Guys,

I am restoring a rare Italian Apple II+ clone called LEMON II

The system is suffering from ROTBIT so i will have to reflash the eproms on it and seems that i am not able to find the original roms for this system i have decided to go with the APPLE II+ Roms

I would like to change the writing when the system comes up from APPLE ][ to LEMON ][ as it was originaly but can't find were to change it, with my HEX editor i can't find were it is, has anyone delt with someting like this.

Thanks Marco

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Floppy Emu back in stock

Submitted by css on August 27, 2020 - 1:43am

Just FYI for anyone looking for one. I have no affiliation with BMOW but have seen a few folks mentioning they were looking for it.

 

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2020/08/17/floppy-emu-restock-and-retro-puzzle-contest/

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Convert floppy to .DSK in UK

Submitted by bucolic on August 26, 2020 - 11:48am

Hi there, the floppy drive for my Apple IIe is no longer working, and I'm going to try to get it back up and running. However, in the meantime there's a disk I would like to get converted to a .DSK file so that I can access it.

I was wondering - is there anyone here from the UK, or nearby, that could do this for me if I sent them the floppy? Obviously happy to cover any costs.

 

Many thanks!

 

 

 

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Apple IIgs loads with a red screen

Submitted by Chris T on August 24, 2020 - 7:22pm

Hey, so Im still waiting for my 4mb ram ugrade to arrive and in the meanwhile I thought Id try Defender of the Crown. So I have 1.25mb. So using FloppyEmu I line up disk1 and reboot. Its starts to load, and then after 30 seconds or so the familiar theme music plays. But the odd thing is, the screen is bright red, no graphics.

The Floppy Emu actually has a Golf game on it, and I have also tried to load that. Same deal, the game loads for 30 seconds, then the screen goes red and then music plays. Very good music, but no graphics.

 

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4116 RAM Tester

Submitted by DDE on August 22, 2020 - 1:43pm

Fellow Hobbyists,

 

Hi, I’m new here, but I’ll been reading this forum for years.  I’ve been looking for a good way to test the ram on my various Apple II’s, Clone, and 16K RAM cards.  Since I didn’t find a readymade solution, I decided to create my own and I would like your thoughts on this project.  It is based on the work of several others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZYB54VD2g

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Apple IIgs, cannot get GSOS to boot

Submitted by Chris T on August 21, 2020 - 11:55am

Hey, I bought a IIgs Rom 01, about 2 months back now. It was sold as working, and indeed it is, in that I have booted some Infocom games on it, and it did not crash. But I also already own a IIe and IIc, so I wanted the IIgs for GSOS and the GS specific games. It came with a memory expansion card, unpopulated, so the machine had 512kb of ram. I tried to boot the image of GSOS 6.2.2 from my floppy emu, but it simply did not work. The loading screen appears, but the progress bar went nowhere.

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Apple ][ europlus not booting properly

Submitted by fstark on August 18, 2020 - 11:54am

Hi,

 

At power up, sometimes, my europlus shows random stuff on the screen, or vertical bars (with low res graphics). This doesn't stay for long, and re-trying get the machine boot a bit.

 

In 95% of the cases, I get a black screen, with the "APPLE ][" on top, and a "/" at the first screen, in position 4 (ie: 3 spaces, then the "/").

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Strage issue with //c and at least one game

Submitted by nick3092 on August 18, 2020 - 8:48am

Recently I've been using my childhood //c to back up my floppies to my Floppy Emu before they go bad (or worse than some of them already have).  While doing so, I've also checked a few of my original game disks to see if they still work.  One of them is Legacy of the Ancients.  I've noticed my //c more often than not is having trouble with the main menu.  Normally there are 4 options displayed.  but it instead is drawing all 4 options on top of each other in one line.  if i use the joystick to move up and down, the program acknowledges it, and moves the highlighted bar to the next item, and

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Disk II lubrication

Submitted by bond on August 14, 2020 - 6:36pm

Over the last couple of weeks I've been slowly resurrecting my first computer, a //e, along with a couple of //es I picked up as spares from work when they were retired, and which have all been stored in the loft for probably the last 25 years or so.  Having got 2 of the 3 //es working, I'm now planning to turn my attention to the disk drives and I have been thinking about what to use to lubricate the rails and other sliding parts.  

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Apple II Composite Out to LCD TV:Good Quality Choices

Submitted by mutant_pie on August 14, 2020 - 1:35pm

Previously I remember (but couldn't easily locate) a discussion on this board about using LCD monitors with composite inputs for use with the Apple ]['s.  I think Tom Owad made the comment that due to Woz's tricks to get the video out, the results weren't quite up to standards of NTSC and so many LCD TV's with composite inputs had difficulties displaying this signal (with vertical hold, IIRC).Well I have come across two LCD TV's that seem to work very well with a ][e's video output and I thought I'd share.

 

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