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Apple III video question

Submitted by Corey986 on October 24, 2019 - 10:38am

Hi,

At the VCF Museum we are adding some LCD TVs to some of our displays for systems that are on display shelves that are not at desk level. We have an Apple III that we want to hook up to one of these TV monitors. I know the they work with 40 column Apple II systems, but the Apple III is 80 column video.

I can't seem to get it working with composite video on the TV (my guess is the 14mhz vs 7mhz dot rate is the issue), but does anyone have any experience with any converter boxes to HDMI with the Apple III and any recommendations on which one to try?

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Any tips or suggestions for getting a "Tecnobytes ClassicIDE" working in a IIGS?

Submitted by SpaceBoy on October 23, 2019 - 1:48am

So a few years ago I bought a Tecnobytes ClassicIDE board for my Apple IIe / IIGS, and I'm finally trying to get it working. This is a card which allows an Apple II-series machine to use a CompactFlash card as though it were a hard drive. Very cool... if I could get it working!I've been following the guide as closely as I can, using "known good" CF cards (a 128meg and a 256meg, the smallest ones I have around), not nothing I do seems to get the IIGS to actually boot from the CF card.

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Apple IIe PAL Keyboard problems

Submitted by robbo007 on October 21, 2019 - 6:17am

Morning,

I've just fired up my second Apple IIe PAL and found Im having strange keyboard probelms.  There seems to be a delay when I press a key it then displays the text. Sometime nothing comes out. I press like 4-5 keys and then it starts working. Its very intemidant. I've run XPS diagnostics as this is a non enhanced apple IIe and the RAM, ROMS etc are all good. I've run the onboard diagnostics too and I get the KERNEL OK message. 

 

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Apple ][+ display vertical repeat plus more mystery

Submitted by william_tell on October 20, 2019 - 9:24am

Hi.  Another Apple ][+, a new-to-me problem that I am hoping some of you can point me to a solution.

The computer boots, beeps, and displays Apple ][ and the ] prompt.  (No disk controller installed, 48K plus a 32K Saturn RAM card in slot 0).

However the display of the Apple ][ and the prompt are repeated.  Here's a picture:

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ADTPro issue

Submitted by thanospl on October 19, 2019 - 2:01am

Hello everybody in the forum

I have an Apple IIe  European (PAL) and I bought a SSC Card just to run ADTPro to load few images to floppies

On the other end I 'm using an Intel Pentium PC with Windows 10 64bits and one serial port, all Java software manualy installed (64bits) and manual file mooving required has been done (Serial Drivers)

Server ADTpro runs ok and show the COM1 port on the Configuration.

Serial cable is a straight through cable DB9F to DB25M

I have a floppy came with the Apple IIe with the ADTPro client and seems to run ok.

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Found an old Apple II clone - Banana

Submitted by Chrisssssssss on October 18, 2019 - 6:29pm

Hey all,  

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Apple II emulator for Raspberry Pi

Submitted by retrofan on October 18, 2019 - 6:31am

A few days ago a friend sent me a link for an Apple II Raspberry Pi emulator.As far as I can see, it's a linapple emulator, placed in the Raspbian startup sequence, to get faster boot time.It is a free open source emulator, so you can download, record it on a micro sd card and use it on your raspberry pi if you like.I tried it on Pi3 and it works without any issues.It launches directly in DOS 3.3 and from there you can use a large amount of software (mostly games), found on this micro sd card image.

Here's the link:

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Need help identifying this Apple ][+

Submitted by william_tell on October 17, 2019 - 9:18pm

I have several Apple ][+ machines I am trying to return to functional...   this one is missing it's badge on the cover, and the internals look different from all the others.

I am including some photos to show what I mean..

For example, this logic board doesn't have the 74LS02 at A14.

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Backing up an old Vulcan 40 MB drive

Submitted by william_tell on October 15, 2019 - 11:15pm

I am very fortunate to have both my personal Apple //e and my brother's Apple //gs.   Back in the day we really loved these machines and tended to go overboard maxing them out with Applied Engineering tech.

Well recently my dad reminded me that he still had both in storage at this place, and I've been trying to carefully bring them both back to life.

Both have Vulcan power supply/drive units - 40MB each.  The Vulcan card in the //e has the Rev 1.4 40M Rom (1989) and the //gs has the Rev 1.2 VUL GS/40 Rom (1989).

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//e enchanced open apple / joystick button 0 issue

Submitted by LiveSteamJohn on October 14, 2019 - 3:23pm

Greetings everyone, been searching for a solution to this for a long time and just now stubled across these forums.  I hope someone here can help!

 

I've got my original //e enhanced from back in 1984 and it has survived well all these years.  I've only had to replace the RAM in it about two years ago to keep it running.

 

It has, for quite a long while, developed an issue thats extremely frustrating as it affects just about every single game:

 

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