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Apple II Pascal...general use and pre-booting for games

Submitted by arukum17 on November 24, 2008 - 5:02am

I am thinking of getting a copy of Apple II Pascal (1979/1980 version with 4 disks, not the later "instant Pascal"). Any users out there?

Also my Wizardry disk, which is the only vintage disk in my collection which refuses to boot, has a golden sticker which says (something to the effect of) "requires Pascal 1.x operating system" (can't recall if it needed 1.1 or 1.2). When I try booting the Wizardry disk without Pascal it gives me an error message, something like "X=random number, Y=random number etc"

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Good source for Apple II game instructions/manuals and cheats

Submitted by arukum17 on November 23, 2008 - 3:42pm

I have various Apple II games w/o manuals.
Any good source to get the pdf scans for the manuals, joystick functions etc.
All the games are relatively well know (Infocom Enchanter, Hitchhikers, Bolo etc)

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Apple II Language Card issues

Submitted by arukum17 on November 23, 2008 - 3:37pm

My Apple II (non plus) boots fine without the 16K Language Card and reads from the floppy disk.
Games (Loderunner) play fine etc.

But when the 16K Language card is plugged in and a boot up is attempted (buy switching on/off) the screen goes funny (flickers and gives a solid flashing cursor without the "]" prompt.
When I switch the computer on and off again a random symbol pattern appears, sometime it gives a solid cursor other times nothing.
This language card used to work earlier. It is a generic card and not an Apple II original item.

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Apple II boot problem

Submitted by swapple on November 23, 2008 - 12:02am

Hi,

I'd like to get this Apple II working. With no diskette drives attached (and no associated disk card installed), when I power up the machine, it does the quick double beep, the "APPLE ][" shows up on the screen and the very next line says something like:

DBxx A=xx X=00 Y=xx P=xx S=xx
*

where xx is a different 2-character hex number

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Mockingboard help .......

Submitted by A2forever on November 22, 2008 - 5:08am

I have a Mockingboard , finally! It seems to work , but I don't have a good set of speakers. The connectors that came with this board seem to be RCA? Can someone recommend a cheap/good set of speakers that one can hook up to these? Since this card already has volume pots on the card , I think , I just need a set that plugs in [RCA Plugs] to the back of each speaker. Also , I think my card supports speech , but there is a chip missing on the board! I think this is for speech capabilities?

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Apple IIgs emulator and real IIgs disk?

Submitted by gmontag451 on November 21, 2008 - 6:08pm

Hello! I hope I have the right forum!

Recently I purchased an Apple IIgs disk called "Paper Models: The Christmas Kit" by Activision. I don't have a IIgs, and I'm very excited to use the disk, but I'm not sure how to go about accessing it with an emulator.

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Experts, pls help - BASIC programming on Apple II emulators

Submitted by kastel20 on November 20, 2008 - 10:38pm

Hi,

Firstly, i've looked EVERYWHERE on the net for information on this for the past few days. I've given up, so i have searched for "apple II discussion forums" and came across this page. If this post is completely unrelated, could someone please tell me a good site/resource/forum for help on this..

Okay... i owned an Apple IIe throughout childhood, and recently i decided to find an Apple IIe emulator for Windows (Applewin) to start learning some basic programming for a bit of fun.

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27C16 EPROMs

Submitted by mfortuna on November 19, 2008 - 6:12am

I finally made some progress on EPROMs for an Apple II Replica kit. What I found and suspected was the simple pin 18 and pin 21 swap shown in various websites and in the Understanding the Apple II book doesn't work with a language card. The language card pulls down pin 18 (INH_L) in the Apple II design (which becomes pin 21 once swapped). Since pin 21 is VPP on a 27C16, it can't be pulled down by the language card.

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Need help with a few mesurements on the Disk ][ Drive

Submitted by TheKisho on November 18, 2008 - 6:13pm

I have a Disk II drive that has both R28 and R33 pots on the Disk II Analog Card. I need some one with the same, that has a Digital Multimeter and is willing to help me out with a few measurements. You must have this analog card and it must be in a full functional, working state when you measure it. Please when you measure with your [digital] meter on the ohms setting, please measure the the following points as seen in the picture and request in this post. I would also request the most accurate measurements you can give me.

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what color scheme do you use to paint a II+ or IIe?

Submitted by A2forever on November 16, 2008 - 1:49am

has anyone in this forum , had the opportunity to repaint their apple II? if so , what color scheme do you use? I know for a II+ it's a different shade then that of a IIe or IIe Platnum.. I have an excellent running IIe Enhanced , but over the years , the yellowing effect has set in. I have already taken it apart and gotten it ready to prime and paint , but I am looking to try and match the exact or close to color, that I can find. doesn't have to be perfect or anything like that. just nice to look at is all.

thanks.

Patrick A.

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