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nOObie questions: mouse and ethernet and ISA

Submitted by capybara on January 1, 2007 - 9:18pm

1. mouse: the DB9 apple II mouse is not compatible with a
"generic" DB9 mouse? does it need an adapter?
2. is the ISA slots compatible with a generic ISA card, so that its just a ____ question of drivers to make any ISA card work?
3. follow up to question 2 - are there any drivers for common ISA ethernet
____ cards like the 3c509 or the NE2000 ?

thx, capybara Smile

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Omnidrive

Submitted by bd1308 on January 1, 2007 - 8:22pm

I remember going into my computer lab (i was a lab admin in 4th grade Wink ) and seeing about 13 apple IIe's connected to a HUGE drive called the Omnidrive. Does anybody know about this thing? All of the apples connect to it, and upon bootup, the omnidrive boots and displays a login prompt of sorts.

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first two production apple ][ boxes

Submitted by capybara on December 30, 2006 - 12:49pm

where did i see this:

"if anyone can name the 5 differences beetween the first two production
apple ][ boxes (or boards) they win a free.....(something)
Hint: the answer is somewhere on the internet."

i cant remember where i saw that, just recently!

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Apple II+ video - color only works in games, not in Applesoft?

Submitted by jaksel on December 29, 2006 - 6:17pm

Sorry for posting another video topic, but I have scratched my head quite a bit over this new problem...

I have an LCD flat-TV connected to my Apple II+ and Apple IIe, and I get 4-color graphics when playing games (e.g. Wavy navy - what a great game!) on the IIe (I cannot get disk drive working on II+). But when I try plotting graphics in Applesoft on either II+ or IIe, I get striped blocks in low-graphics, and only white in high-graphics. E.g. I tried there short programs:

10 GR
20 FOR I=0 TO 15
30 PLOT 1, I
40 NEXT I
50 END

and

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Apple II+ video type? Damaged :-(

Submitted by jaksel on December 28, 2006 - 9:27am

I am looking around for a color monitor that I can plug in, but I am not sure exactly what types of monitors I can use. The Apple manual says the video is NTSC, but can be modified (mine is) to suit European standard CCIR monitors (b/w or color). But to get PAL, you need special hardware.

So are there any suitable CCIR color monitors for Apple II+ available today?

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USB for Apple II

Submitted by mmphosis on December 19, 2006 - 11:58pm

Anyone hacking hardware USB to plug into the Apple II?

Here's one from 8bit Atari hacker's...
http://www.strotmann.de/twiki/bin/view/Microusb/ProjUSBAppleTwo

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selling or trading my appleII and II+, i need advice pls :)

Submitted by capybara on December 19, 2006 - 9:11pm

is the origional appleII worth alot more than a IIplus or IIe or IIgs?

because i was thinking or selling or trading my appleII and IIplus

and keeping my IIc and IIe because they are easier to use.

but if the original appleII is a collectors model and much more valuable
[than the II+, IIe , II gs] maybe im being stoopid and should hold onto
that orignal model apple II it.

what do u think? Smile

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replacement Apple II/IIplus keyboard encoders with a twist

Submitted by vbriel on December 12, 2006 - 8:28pm

Well, for those that know me, know that I like to tinker and build things when I need something. Well, I have several Apple IIplus computers and several of them had bad keyboard encoders. For those that are familiar with Apple II hardware it is a small board attached to a II or IIplus (NOT IIe) keyboard and it encodes the matrix keyboard into ASCII.

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PC to be used as drive for apple II

Submitted by APPLEMANMAC on December 12, 2006 - 4:37pm

Has anybody seen a program that would use a pc that is
hooked up to an apple like with ADT.That would use the PC as an diskdrive for the apple. To use instead of transfering disk images over ADT.Just use the PC as a diskdrive.(I hope I worded that right).I believe their was something like that for the amiga?

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Apple II+ disk drive problems

Submitted by jaksel on December 11, 2006 - 4:38am

I have an Apple II+, and a compact floppy disk drive with an Apple II disk interface card.

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