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Apple IIgs, cannot get GSOS to boot

Submitted by Chris T on August 21, 2020 - 11:55am

Hey, I bought a IIgs Rom 01, about 2 months back now. It was sold as working, and indeed it is, in that I have booted some Infocom games on it, and it did not crash. But I also already own a IIe and IIc, so I wanted the IIgs for GSOS and the GS specific games. It came with a memory expansion card, unpopulated, so the machine had 512kb of ram. I tried to boot the image of GSOS 6.2.2 from my floppy emu, but it simply did not work. The loading screen appears, but the progress bar went nowhere.

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Apple ][ europlus not booting properly

Submitted by fstark on August 18, 2020 - 11:54am

Hi,

 

At power up, sometimes, my europlus shows random stuff on the screen, or vertical bars (with low res graphics). This doesn't stay for long, and re-trying get the machine boot a bit.

 

In 95% of the cases, I get a black screen, with the "APPLE ][" on top, and a "/" at the first screen, in position 4 (ie: 3 spaces, then the "/").

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Strage issue with //c and at least one game

Submitted by nick3092 on August 18, 2020 - 8:48am

Recently I've been using my childhood //c to back up my floppies to my Floppy Emu before they go bad (or worse than some of them already have).  While doing so, I've also checked a few of my original game disks to see if they still work.  One of them is Legacy of the Ancients.  I've noticed my //c more often than not is having trouble with the main menu.  Normally there are 4 options displayed.  but it instead is drawing all 4 options on top of each other in one line.  if i use the joystick to move up and down, the program acknowledges it, and moves the highlighted bar to the next item, and

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Disk II lubrication

Submitted by bond on August 14, 2020 - 6:36pm

Over the last couple of weeks I've been slowly resurrecting my first computer, a //e, along with a couple of //es I picked up as spares from work when they were retired, and which have all been stored in the loft for probably the last 25 years or so.  Having got 2 of the 3 //es working, I'm now planning to turn my attention to the disk drives and I have been thinking about what to use to lubricate the rails and other sliding parts.  

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Apple II Composite Out to LCD TV:Good Quality Choices

Submitted by mutant_pie on August 14, 2020 - 1:35pm

Previously I remember (but couldn't easily locate) a discussion on this board about using LCD monitors with composite inputs for use with the Apple ]['s.  I think Tom Owad made the comment that due to Woz's tricks to get the video out, the results weren't quite up to standards of NTSC and so many LCD TV's with composite inputs had difficulties displaying this signal (with vertical hold, IIRC).Well I have come across two LCD TV's that seem to work very well with a ][e's video output and I thought I'd share.

 

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Woz's 70th Birthday

Submitted by mmphosis on August 11, 2020 - 10:53pm

https://www.wozbday.com/

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Apple II+ joystick cable to iie joystick how to plug in.

Submitted by NovellNetware on August 10, 2020 - 10:34pm

Being lazy and I wanted to brag. Even before I got my apple II plus. I had a person bring in some recyceing and for my eyes it included what I only know as a II+ to IIe adaptor cable. But no manual and no pin allignment. Got to love cables back in the day. So any ideas? The closet I have is I found a diagram that shows pin 1 should be 5+ volts. I'm thinking the cable plug in will face toward the back to push the connect out the back of the apple ii.  The joystick I picked up on epay for under $20.00 including shipping. I thought it was a good deal.

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Floppy notcher

Submitted by desiv on August 9, 2020 - 7:43pm

So, getting back into my Apple //e recently and after getting ADTPro working (and the Online Disk Server), I decided to notch some of my floppies to use side 2.

So, I grabbed my trusty hole punch, just like in ye olde days.

Then I remembered those neato disk notchers, and checked ebay.  Seeing only one at or over $100 or so, decided that wasn't the route.. ;-)

Then I decided to check Thingiverse to see what 3D printer options might be available to help.

Actually did find a "floppy notch guide" to help line up your hole punch better!

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Help troubleshooting an Apple IIe

Submitted by migueldelag on August 8, 2020 - 7:08pm

I'm new here so, hello! :)Recently I discovered an Apple IIe in what it used to be my grandfathers basement.Cleaned it a bit hooked up everything and power it on, it didn't work very well, sometimes seemed to beep and display text another times just a green screen AKA no video:

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Grappler and software incompatibility??

Submitted by desiv on August 8, 2020 - 3:02pm

OK, maybe not, but this was weird.

I got my //e set back up and decided to ADT (yes, I am using that as a verb) some of the original disks that came with it...

So I put Inside Story on a floppy and ran that.

Then I went for "An introduction to your Apple //e."

Firstly, several of the ones on Asimov labeled as that are actually the Inside Story.  ;-)

But after using AppleWin to find the real ones, I copied it..

And it didn't run....  ;-(

It booted, and looked like it might, but just a black screen.

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