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IIgs with many floppy drives

Submitted by BackOfTheBeerCooler on April 12, 2019 - 6:18pm

Advance apologies if my searching wasn’t thorough enough.

i have a IIgs with two 3.5 drives and two 5.25 drives daisy-chained to the 19-pin external drive port.

theres a CF “hard drive” in slot 7, and I’m trying to connect a Floppy Emu drive emulating a third 3.5 drive. The Floppy Emu doesn’t have a daisy chain port, so I’m looking for advice as to where and how to connect it.

 

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Troubleshooting my old apple2+ with monitor III

Submitted by cacodaemon on April 8, 2019 - 9:54am

I just took my old apple 2+ out of storage.  Last use was over  20+ years ago.  From a sound perspective it goes through the nomal boot process.  I am struggling with getting working video.

 

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Apple II video output issue

Submitted by css on April 7, 2019 - 1:08am

Hi all,

 

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Original AppleWorks floppy disks are write protected?

Submitted by neosunrise on March 30, 2019 - 3:46pm

I have obtained a complete copy of AppleWorks with user guides and books. But I noticed that all three disks have no write protection notch so every time when I started the program, it asked me to remove the write protection tab. Is it normal that these disks came with mo notch at all? How can I use the program?

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How to load games on MicroDrive/Turbo

Submitted by Willz06jw on March 30, 2019 - 1:11pm

Howdy and thanks for reading,

 

I have a "new" Apple iiGS with a MicroDrive/Turbo.  I also have a old backup of Adventure in dsk format.

 

Using CiderPress:

When I extract the dsk file to a folder, then extract the contents into a folder on the CF, I can't get the game to start.

It starts fine in AppleWin.

The same goes for Mixed Up Mother Goose.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Will

 

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Dead Apple //c ?

Submitted by SynthAux98 on March 28, 2019 - 10:30pm

Hey everyone! I'm new to the site and hopefully someone can help me out here. 

 

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Apple II SchoolBus Card

Submitted by 8bit_SchoolBus on March 27, 2019 - 2:58pm

Hello! I recently aquired a SchoolBus networking card and some promotional information about the device. From what I've learned, the card allows several Apple IIs to share disk drives and a printer to cut down on costs and manage what students can access. I don't have any of the connectors for the card, or an other instructional/informational materials. 

 

Does anyone have any information on the SchoolBus card? I am looking for: 

1) Any info/knowledge you might have about it

2) Anyone who has actually used it would be cool

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E3 RAM chip in backwards after removing language card

Submitted by taos23 on March 26, 2019 - 5:18pm

I made a terrible mistake on my Apple II. I removed the language card and when i put the ram chip from the card into E3 I put it in backwards. Very unfortunate as i've don't this 100 times. When i turned it on, the RAM chip got hot. It was only on for maybe 5 seconds. Now when i turn it on i get the first beep, drive spins and then an error beep with address c002 listed, or sometimes 2025. I've tried removing all the other ram chips except first row, same problem. Could all of the RAM chips be bad? Any idea what other chips could be bad? I do have chips from a different computer to try.

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Microchip confusion

Submitted by Statsman1 on March 25, 2019 - 3:35pm

Can anyone help me out here?

I pulled out two corroded SN74LS161 AN chips from an Apple II+.  eBay doesn't have any of these up for sale right now, but they DO have SN74LS161 N and DN74LS161 AN chips for sale (from China) - is the D vs S significant here?  What about the AN vs N in the chip name?  

I also need to replace a corroded DM74LS02 N chip.  

What is significant about these chip names / branding that I need to match, and what isn't?

Any help is appreciated!

S1

 

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Fix bad video on II Plus caused by RAM card?

Submitted by Electronizer on March 24, 2019 - 5:33pm

I recently got an Apple II+ with a clone of the Saturn 128 memory card installed. I have it connected via composite video out to a modern LCD TV. With the memory card installed, there is a lot of red and blue color bleed around text on the screen, and a bunch of vertical blue dashed lines that are continually pulsating. Without the memory card, the text is crystal clear. Interestingly, whenever I load a program on disk, the bad text and vertical lines clear up while the disk drive is running, then come back.

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