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Use modern graphic file on Apple II

Submitted by evank on March 3, 2017 - 12:29am

Suppose I have a .jpg or .png or whatever, and I want to display it on a color Apple II monitor. Is there a procedure for this? If not, then what about converting the image into 40-column ASCII text?

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II europlus crash after a few minutes

Submitted by falen5 on March 2, 2017 - 7:44am

Another strange problem
My II europlus crashes 1 or 2 minutes after I power it up.
If I keep at it (switching it on and off, reseating chips) it ends up not coming on at all, just a screen of random characters , as if there is a ram problem.

Spent a few hours last night and gave up. Just could not get it to boot at all

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Refurb Apple II, how to get the disk II working

Submitted by greycon on March 1, 2017 - 11:06am

Have a pet project I go back to every few months - rebuild of an early Apple II. To date, PSU caps fixed, keyboard encoder chip issue fixed, and all good now, as far as starting up with no disk.

I have a couple of Disk IIs,but I don't know if they are any good. So, any suggestions on how to proceed? I could order a DOS 3.3 master from ebay, I guess, but I am pretty sure most of them would be worthless. I have a super serial card, so I believe if I had a known working disk II drive, I could burn my own.

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Platinum //e - Softcard Locking Up

Submitted by grimakis on February 26, 2017 - 9:24pm

Hi,

I recentlty added an original Microsoft Softcard to Apple //e, Slot 4.

I've been having an awful of trouble with it. The system boots up, and many things works like Basic, etc.

If I type STAT, it returns the free space on disk A. If I type STAT B, it just locks up.

I have loaded other programs and they have locked up. Wordstar 4 locks up.

Is this card not compatible with the 65C02 timings? Do I need to get a different CP/M card?

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Tecmar LabMaster AD211 Card

Submitted by macnoyd on February 22, 2017 - 4:04pm

Just got this card today with hopes of gathering as much info on the card as I can.

The TecMar LabMaster AD211 was one of the first multi-functional data acquisition cards for the Apple ][, though the card was mostly produced in 1980 to 1981. In it's essence, this is an 8-channel Analogue to Digital Converter Board. The Company was located in Ohio, USA.

The board's claim to fame:

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Volunteer needed for floppy dump - Silicon Valley

Submitted by Spags on February 22, 2017 - 6:46am

I'm looking for a volunteer in or close to the Silicon Valley area to dump a few floppy disks (hopefully no more than two).

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Needed: Laser 128 card external enclosure

Submitted by evank on February 22, 2017 - 1:51am

Does anyone have the external card enclosure for a Laser 128? We need to get one (as a tax-deductible donation for the Vintage Computer Federation museum) or at least get enough pictures/details to replicate it. We are making a Lego programming station for kids/parents and we chose to base it around the Laser because it's small (like a //c) but has the necessary card slot (like a //e). Works fine with a card directly in the slot where the enclosure would attach, but we can't have the card fully exposed like that for kids to (ahem) POKE at.

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Apple IIc woes.

Submitted by Drignor on February 20, 2017 - 8:02pm

I'm hoping someone has seen something like this in their travels and can shed some light on what I'll need to do to fix my new (old) Apple IIc.

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Diode replacement

Submitted by falen5 on February 20, 2017 - 10:07am

Hello again folks.

Recapping another II powersupply

Noticed that D12 looks burnt and the PCB is burnt under it as well - so i want to replace it

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How to set up the 'super R mod'

Submitted by falen5 on February 18, 2017 - 12:18pm

Hi all

Got my II euro plus working after recapping the power supply

This machine came with a 'super R mod II'. I believe it is a tv modulator so I can connect the II to a normal color TV.

This is it was disconnected when I got it.

There is an RGB encoder card and the super R mod II board. I think i am supposed to connect the 2 of them together.

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