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[Apple IIgs Rom 01] Installing GS.OS v6.0.4 with only MicroDrive Turbo CF Card?

Submitted by Slush_Puppie on May 5, 2025 - 3:04pm

Hello,

     I recently acquired an Apple IIgs Rom 01 with a 2mb RAM expansion card and have installed Reactive Micro's MicroDrive Turbo with a preloaded CF card, as well as their PSU kit. I'm attempting to install GS.OS v6.0.4 but I'm having difficulty as I do not have a working floppy drive. I have a 32mb partition on which I have all of the 6.0.4 files and I can run the Installer, but when I've chosen the volume I want to update the Easy Update program it wants me to insert the Install Disk. 

 

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NEWPRINT/Multi anyone?

Submitted by mreg376 on May 4, 2025 - 8:51am

Anyone with experience with this?  It claims to work with a parallel card in the II series to send printed output over WiFi to a Mac or PC using a web interface, from which you can print from the Mac or PC.

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80 column card

Submitted by martin72 on April 26, 2025 - 7:02pm

I've a 80 column card for the Apple II+ and I don't have video on a videomonitor. Does someone recognize this card and does know how this card works.There are twoconnectors at the top left corner, does someone know which of them is the video output and what is the purpose of the other connector? There's a UM6845 video controller and CXK5816PN (2048 word x 8 Bit High Speed CMOS Static RAM) on the card. It seems it is not a standard Videx card.

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Capital Computer Co "Super Mocking Board" - anyone have one?

Submitted by DeanClaxton on April 26, 2025 - 7:16am

Hi all,

 

I have a Mockingboard clone from Capital Computer Co called a Super Mocking Board. It has a number of neat features - one of which I'm puzzled by.

 

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Odd II+ power-up behaviour

Submitted by baldrick on April 24, 2025 - 8:42am

I've been struggling with a II+ that's not powering up properly.

The motherboard contains just one row of RAM chips - 16K of tested good RAM.  ROM chips all test good on EPROM reader.

First symptom (and this is variable):  Powers up to the (with beep) ] prompt but entering any keystrokes causes it to crash out.

Second symptom:  it worsened to a blank inverse screen (still a beep) with what appears to be a black cursor in the top left.  No input - reset does nothing.

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Apple IIe and daisy chaining 5.25" floppy

Submitted by mreg376 on April 21, 2025 - 5:37pm

I have the IIe with the usual disk controller card, and was running a 5.25 floppy model A9M0107.  Worked fine.  Then I added a second drive, same model, using that as Drive 1 and the existing drive as Drive 2 attached to Drive 1, daisy chain.  The (new) Drive 1 works fine, but Drive 2 (the drive that worked fine as sole Drive 1) appears to be dead.  Is there anyhing else I have to do with the daisy chain?  Or is there a way to get the IIe to look at Drive?  I tried Catalog ,D2, but get an I/O error.

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COMPUTE MAGAZINE RETURNS!

Submitted by Khaibitgfx on April 19, 2025 - 1:13pm

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Apple IIgs ROM 03 and SCSI support

Submitted by Sid6.7 on April 19, 2025 - 5:28am

Hello everyone, 

 

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Creating Menus of Programs on Disk Emulator

Submitted by mreg376 on April 16, 2025 - 11:09pm

So, as I'm sure you all know, floppy emulators like the ReActiveMicro Microdrive Turbo use cards, like a compact flash card and even IDE drives, to emulate floppies.  Each "Volume" on the Microdrive Turbo can be up to 32 MB.  My question is, is there a way to use that space to create a menu of disk images that would otherwise have to boot from their own floppy, or their own Volume on the card , so that I could simply boot into one Volume on the card and choose what to run off a menu?

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Interface ascii apple II+ help

Submitted by classd2008 on April 15, 2025 - 10:21am

Hello everyone. Could someone help me by explaining how the options for selecting the keyboard type work? I built this board for an Apple II+, put all the JUMPERs (I didn't use a Dip Switch) and it worked fine, but I would like to understand this mapping of columns and rows.Thank you.

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