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Apple II CRPG Nox Archaist has officially been released!

Submitted by 6502_workshop on December 12, 2020 - 1:06pm

The 6502 Workshop team is thrilled to announce that 8-bit RPG Nox Archaist has been released!

Journey with us back in time to the 1980s an experience an adventure inspired by classics like Ultima and Bard's Tale.  

 

Lord British himself has traveled to Vali, the world of Nox Archaist, to help thee on thy quest!

 

Game Trailerhttps://youtu.be/zeMIDv7xYr0

 

We would love to put a collector's edition box in your hands, featuring cover art by Denis Loubet, or set you up with the Digital Edition. 

 

Available to order now!

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Format 2nd card for RM MicroDrive

Submitted by michael48937 on December 12, 2020 - 12:47pm

I want to make a 2nd formatted CF card using the RM Mirco

Looks like this should be super easy - boot the machine, run the RM utils - microdrv.setup - have the card to use inserted as drive 1.

But it just shows me I have an error drive 1 or such.

I'm using a brand new CF card, 32GB (the goal was to make a bunch of 2GB HFS partitions).

Do I need to do something different? Format the card first?

 

 

 

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Orange Peel (Apple II Clone)

Submitted by Blake_Volpex on December 9, 2020 - 10:51am

I picked up an Apple II clone last week, and I'm in the process of re-storing it. 

Has anyone heard of the Orange Peel by the Canadian company Orange Computers inc.

All I could find was an ETI article about it (attached).

I decided to re-cap it before turning it on, it's only a $25 order from Digikey (including the original Zenith monitor).

I didn't think to take pictures before dissembling it. But here's the main boards:

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Faulty Ram?

Submitted by twitch on December 8, 2020 - 11:35am

hi guys,

 

im messing around with a broken iic (us version) which i got here in germany...

It wont post / shows marbled graphics.  It tries to read from my floppy emu but ends with errors...

 

i managed to check system with rom4x

(most of the time the machine gets stuck while testing maybe in 1/100 i got different Ram Errors...)

 

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Apple ][ Plus ????? on screen @ startup

Submitted by orlandoave on December 7, 2020 - 7:54pm

 

   ][ Plus motherboard beeps with power light on (no DII controller installed) but display is full of

???. Where is the first place to start troubleshooting?

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Interest in affordable ProFile Controller or SilenType Card for ][ Series?

Submitted by Timelord on December 7, 2020 - 10:50am

I finally found an affordable ProFile card. I plan to make schematics for it ere using it, and I will probably publish them for free, but that aside, is there any interest in making a run of ProFile cards? These bastards fetch £200 to £400 on eBay, and there is no reason that they need to be that costly if your only goal is to be able to use a ProFile. 

 

Of course, I will need to see if there are any PROMs or logic chips that I cannot dump and replicate, but it is not a complicated design AFAIR, and if I can pop out a run of copies, are any of you interested?

 

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Fishy Board Date

Submitted by Timelord on December 6, 2020 - 2:18am

I found this odd, and amusing. I suspect that someone cleaned the board, accidentally wiped off the numbers, and rewrote 79 as 74. 

 

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Dan Raymer LCA-1 manual

Submitted by Smitty420 on December 4, 2020 - 4:54pm

I have a LCA-1 and it doesn't seem to be working. I loaded up AppleWriter II and my lowercase is just some random pixels. I do not have the Manual any longer and do not know what needs to be done to get the thing to work.  Any one with knowledge is appreciated.  

 

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Light Pens

Submitted by Timelord on December 3, 2020 - 6:12pm

I remember years ago, an article about constructing a light pen in one of the old mags. It may have been CALL APPLE, InCider, or another. 

 

Does anyone else here recall that? I think that we made one back in the early 80s, and I know that we had one in the office, but I do not frankly recall it ever getting much use, and I do not remember if it was a handmade piece or a commercial piece, only that we wanted to use it for a spreadsheet programme, but because of the limited audience that did not happen.

 

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