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Vulcan Menu

Submitted by Wayne on May 22, 2025 - 5:40pm

By chance I discovered something about the Vulcan hard drive that I never knew about and don’t see in the manual.

 

On booting the Vulcan by accident I happened to press the space bar and a menu from the Vulcan firmware opened. It gave me a choice of which slot to boot from or which Vulcan partition to boot off of. I wish I'd known about this years ago.

 

Sadly it’s only on the IIgs and not the IIe. I’m using the Vulcan Gold firmware. Don’t know if it’s on the earlier versions

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Asking you to do a small experiment (needs: Liron card or clone)

Submitted by UncleBernie on May 21, 2025 - 4:27pm

Hi folks -

 

if you have an Apple II, Apple II+, Apple IIe with at least 64k of RAM and a "Liron" card or a clone thereof, or if you own one of the devices supporting "SmartPort" operations, or emulations of "SmartPort" mapping Protocol Converter calls to a Flash memory driver, I have a little experiment you can do for me (and as a benefit for all of us) which does not cost you much time.

 

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My early Apple II PSU is weird (820-0003-01) - RIFA caps nonexistent?

Submitted by geerlingguy on May 20, 2025 - 2:50pm

I've been working on re-capping and refurbishing the PSU in an original Apple II, serial number TODO. The saga is documented in full here.

However, my Dad and I have run into an issue:

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Testing an Apple //e I/O Card 655-0101

Submitted by tamsoftware on May 14, 2025 - 4:03pm

Good evening,

I have the card in question, with its internal cable for my //e (converted to Enhanced today)

I have built the external DB-19 cable and have tried with a DuoDisk drive as well as a SmartProSD device. In both cases they power up, but nothing happens afterwards.

Could anyone help me determine what is faulty in my setup? It can be any or all of:

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apco psu help

Submitted by 1ajs on May 13, 2025 - 10:22pm

got a apco with a power supply thats doing nothing

 

open it up find some burnt areas around resistors on the board

 

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Apple IIGS Keyboard question

Submitted by Wizard1969 on May 12, 2025 - 6:59pm

I have an Apple Keyboard II with my IIGS and somewhere along the line the spacebar might have lost it's spring , if it ever had one. I suspect these have two springs, but all I can see is one small one and perhaps a space for another. Am I missing a spring?

 

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RTC 2019 Still Available?

Submitted by khvtechsurrect on May 12, 2025 - 5:56pm

Is the RTC 2019 board still possible to get hold off from any seller? Looking to get hold of RTC to my A2e while the no slot solution is what I've found it's my understanding you need to run with patched version of ProDOS. Also, what slot is would these card be using (which might be I the end to avoid such card if it conflicts with other existing cards)?

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Can ESP32 Softcard Composite Output Be Adapted To Use The Apple RGB Monitor?

Submitted by mcbeav on May 11, 2025 - 4:40pm

I want to put an ESP32 Softcard in my IIGS, but I don't want to have to switch monitors, or have a secondary monitor for the ESP32 Softcard. Can the composite output from the ESP32 Softcard be adapter to display on the Apple RGB Monitor? If so, then I can think about designing some sort of Apple RGB input switcher. 

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6502 50th birthday : Habemus Spirit !

Submitted by kris92 on May 11, 2025 - 12:23pm

The timing is perfect for the 6502 jubilee. I'm doing the final evols to the whole design (case adjustment, hardware and firmware).At the time I'm writing, the specs are :

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