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"Apple Bunny" key repeat mod

Submitted by bradleyb on April 7, 2025 - 1:16am

I came across this funny little guy on ebay. Anybody have one of these, or remember them from back in the day? 

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Apple iie Keyboard

Submitted by Adams apple on April 6, 2025 - 10:06pm

Hi, I recently bought an Apple iie and it had a couple keys that weren't working. I verifies the switches were dead by testing with a multimeter. I ordered new ones and now i have even more keys that aren't woring after replacing the two bad ones. Is there a chance I messed up the board or something?

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The Frob: Ongoing analysis: Why is FMON hanging?

Submitted by Thomas Cherryhomes on April 5, 2025 - 11:01am

The Frob was an Atari VCS #GameDev system card for the #Apple2.

It had an interactive debugger called FMON which I am trying to debug. And an apple2 side called AMON, these run in tandem.

The Frob was unique because it had a pair of bi-directional registers for status and sending one byte of data. This can be used by the VCS and the Apple2 to send information to each other.

Chapter 2 of the Frob manual describes the operation of these registers. 

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Know-Drive by Abacus

Submitted by schafferm on April 4, 2025 - 12:10am

I recently came across the "Know-Drive" by Abacus.   This device is kind of like a wildcard on steroids.   

 

I am struggling to find the software 

 

Back2Back and Playback - an also the documentation for this hardware.    There has to be SOMEONE out there who has the software images at the very least.

 

Any help is appreciated 

 

 

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How to set and use a IIGS prefix?

Submitted by sbaker51 on April 3, 2025 - 7:29pm

How do I set a pathname to an available IIGS prefix and how do I use that numeric prefix to access that path? I'm trying to do this within the text shell environment in ORCA. 

Can this be done within that environment, or must it be done perhaps in ProDOS 8. What is/are the commands to do so. 

Microsoft CoPilot suggests...

PREFIX #1, "/MYDIRECTORY"  to set a prefix

LOAD #1, "MYFILE"                      to access a file in that directory  

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AppleWin: keyboard joystick help?

Submitted by Harry Potter on April 3, 2025 - 5:42pm

I sometimes try to play Apple 2 games on the AppleWin and am confused as to how the emulated joystick works.  It seems that the Apple2 had an analog joystick.  How do I handle an Apple2 joystick on the emulator?  Same with the mouse?

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Microzine issues index?

Submitted by Harry Potter on April 3, 2025 - 5:38pm

Hi!  I have open in my browser a site on asimov containing a lot of issues.  I remember when I was young playing Ask Bertha and watching people creating cards on Apple 2s at school.  I'm looking for an index of the contents of the Microzine subscriptions.  Where can I find one?

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Looking for IIgs Motherboard

Submitted by rittwage on April 2, 2025 - 7:29pm

I recently rescued a IIgs from someone, but they had plugged something wrong into the disk port and completely blew the IWM chip. It is actually cracked and has a small hole in it!

I removed it, planned on just possibly using a hard drive or a disk II card in it, but it doesn't come up at all. Does the board need an IWM installed to even boot up? I get nothing on the screen at all, no beep. I do get power everywhere.

I checked the ROM and CPU are good in another IIgs, but those are the only (easily) removeable chips.

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boot sector Help!

Submitted by Jiroplas on April 2, 2025 - 5:03am

I have a code that weighs exactly 1kb and I need it to end up in the boot sector of an Apple IIgs disk, which is best for a 3.5-inch Floppy disk. Can someone tell me how to put this code in the boot sector?

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