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Disk Help

Submitted by Zan8675 on May 15, 2014 - 9:59pm

I am familiar with a lot of Apple II stuff but I personally have never seen or used this disk before. I'm sure many of you guys know its purpose!
It boots like the DOS 3.3 Basics disk in a few seconds time and then asks me to "Insert Basic Disk and press return key"

I actually have three of them but have no clue. (plus, I don't know what the disk is for Smile

????
Zan

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Silentype on Apple ///

Submitted by dramsey on May 15, 2014 - 2:45pm

I understand that the Apple /// has a Silentype printer port built in. I see Silentypes on eBay every now and then. From what I can tell, they used 8.5" wide thermal paper rolls, and this size still seems to be widely available for fax machines.

Can the Silentype use modern thermal paper? And is it a reasonable choice for an Apple ///? I could always use my existing Epson dot matrix printer, but Apple /// parallel cards aren't that common...

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Printer emulation

Submitted by havediscs on May 15, 2014 - 2:05pm

There's an Apple II emulator for Macs that can output print images, such as from The Print Shop (see the middle of the page here):
http://www.virtualii.com/

Is there any emulator for Windows that would have this capability?

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Profile mod to use flash drive

Submitted by dramsey on May 11, 2014 - 11:12pm

I recall seeing-- somewhere-- that someone had built a board that replaced the ST506 in a Profile with a flash drive of some sort.

Since the CFFA3000 doesn't support SOS directly, and I think that a 30-year-old hard drive probably wouldn't be reliable, I'd really like to find where I saw this.

(If I did, of course.)

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

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Getting into Apple IIGS

Submitted by protek on May 11, 2014 - 4:41pm

Greetings!
I am a soon to be happy owner of an Apple IIGS. It's just the base unit without drives or keyboard. The latter I got covered as I have a keyboard and mouse from my Mac Classic.

As for mass storage, I'm considering my options. If I am going to use the GS OS, is a proper hard drive a necessity? I've been looking at the SDisk II, which connects to the 20-pin connector of a floppy drive controller. Can the connecting cable simply be converted for the 19-pin floppy deive connector of the IIGS or do I need an adapter of sorts?

Thanks!
Tero

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NOS Apple ///

Submitted by dramsey on May 10, 2014 - 8:17pm

I just bought, from an old Apple employee, an NOS Apple ///+, external drive, and monitor ///, along with a bunch of software. The computer and drive have been removed from their boxes to check condition but have never been powered up. The monitor has never been removed from the box.

I'll pick the computer up in a week or two (the next time I'm back in San Jose), but are there any things I should do before putting power to a system this old? A motherboard chip-press or something?

(It would be really nice if the CFFA3000 worked on this system, but I don't think it will...)

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MDC incompatible with Windows 7?

Submitted by havediscs on May 10, 2014 - 7:06pm

You know the program that comes with CiderPress that's supposed to bulk-list the files that are on all the disk images in a folder? It isn't working. I tried it on two different computers and it spit out a blank txt file on both.

To scan the folder I wanted, I had to plug in an old laptop running Windows XP. I used the same version and it worked on there.

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//c 9" monochrome A2M4090 tilt / rotation

Submitted by ericF on May 10, 2014 - 1:18pm

I have a 9" monochrome //c A2M4090 monitor that exhibits "tilt". The image "slants" down from left to right, maybe one character height over the width. I'm guessing that this is a problem with the yoke deflection.

I love the tightness of this monitor, but the tilt is driving me a bit buggy. Any recommendations?

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My apple II NTSC 1 is not working with my vga converter HD gamebox 1920x1200

Submitted by dvador on May 9, 2014 - 4:21pm

My apple IIe is not working with my vga converter HD gamebox 1920x1200
(the converter works wonderfully with my commodores)

from time to time I get a very bad image (blurred)
most of the time nothing usable

once the converter is connected the apple II does not reply to reset
I'm using a usb to apple IIe converter (normally works wonderfully)

any idea ?

thanks

works sometimes wonderfully with my cvbs to hdmi + hdmi to vga but sometimes the image is blurred

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Disk II won't write

Submitted by dramsey on May 8, 2014 - 11:00pm

I just got a couple of nice Disk ][ drives off eBay-- the first-generation, metal-cased drives with the ribbon cables.

They're both clean and work perfectly, except the second drive won't write-- judging from the error messages I'm getting, it thinks all disks are write-protected. (IO Error 16 and the like).

Otherwise, it's perfect-- I can boot DOS, ProDOS, and Pascal from it with no problem.

I've checked with a multimeter and the write-protect switch seems to work fine, so I guess the problem is electrical. Any ideas?

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