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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...)

 

PICTURES:

 

 

https://bilderupload.org/bild/a01a45189-96120971-1021911182579946

https://bilderupload.org/bild/55c545181-96428022-1021911182615947

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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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Cold Boot Adapter....what?

Submitted by Timelord on December 3, 2020 - 5:01pm

I do not remember this card, at all. Do any of you know its intended purpose?

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TWGS in slot 2?

Submitted by Lee Adamson on December 2, 2020 - 11:10pm

Hey guys.  I recently acquired one of the ReactiveMicro TWGS cards, clocked at 16MHz.  It's pretty darn sweet.

 

However, there is a problem in the ribbon cable that goes between the card and the CPU socket.  Intermittent connection.  It works if I bend the ribbon cable a certain way, but it's not reliable.

 

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