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New Owner of a Apple IIe

Submitted by mbc230 on July 4, 2019 - 12:25am

Hello All....Great forum and glad to be a new member. I am a proud of owner of a recently purchased Apple IIe that I bought off of ebay (Price was right). Well I unboxed the computer. It came with a color monitor (with a broken RCA male end stuck in it. Had to take monitor apart to remove it), CPU was full of rat poop (Seller claimed the computer was in a storage unit (Had to take apart to clean it all out), and came with the dual set top DuoDisk disk drives. So the issue I am seeing is no matter what disk I put into the drives the red light stays on and the video is displaying Apple IIe.

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Apple IIe strange issue

Submitted by mamejay on July 3, 2019 - 9:58pm

Hi everyone,

Very new to owning an Apple computer.

I recently got my hands on a couple of Apple IIe computers.

One is working fine the other seemed to be dead. 

Both have boards Logic Board ID: PCB: 820-0188-A (International) - REV: 607-0288-C in them.

I managed to get the non-working one up again.  It had a short to ground on the 12v line which was caused by  a bad 10uf cap.  Replaced that and we have power LED.

 

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Emulating a Disk II via rPi GPIO.

Submitted by Lee Adamson on July 3, 2019 - 12:15pm

So, since I have an rPi in my //e anyway, and since it has plenty of spare GPIO pins, I thought maybe I'd try hooking some of them to a Disk II controller and writing a unix daemon to emulate a floppy drive.  I'd think that the rPi would be fast enough to do it all in software, especially if it was running a realtime kernel......  But I dunno.....

 

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Selling a NEW Apple IIgs: turn it on or not?

Submitted by mnemonic on July 3, 2019 - 2:18am

Hey everyone, I am facing the following dilemma: I have a new, unused Apple IIgs that to my knowledge was never powered on. It is a rev 0 model from 1986, so it is almost 33 years old. I would like to sell this machine and I wonder if I should turn it on for testing at all, which bears the risk of the power supply dying, leaving me with a dead unit. On the other hand, I could sell without testing it, in which case I cannot claim that it is working. Which would probably reduce its value. What are the odds that the power supply dies when I turn it on?

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Apple II power supply screw size

Submitted by td75 on July 2, 2019 - 6:54pm

Does anyone know what the correct screw size is for the bottom 4 screws of the power supply? 

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Copying floppys with Apple IIc

Submitted by Tavast on July 1, 2019 - 7:39am

Hi Apple folks,

 

I have Apple IIc with the original package and software disks that I run everyone now and then together with my other vintage computers. Well, I have one very early original Ultima game that I would like to back-up onto another floppy. What is the best way to go about in this, where can I easily find a program that could do this?

 

All help appreciated!

 

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Weird Broken ProDOS

Submitted by TobyJennings on June 29, 2019 - 11:25pm

After I got my old //c working again I went through the box of floppies I had on hand. These were all from the 80s and with a few exceptions were all non-commerical disks that we'd copied from friends or as backups. I set about working backward and bootstrapping from a "known-good" state via ADTPro and set to capturing as many of these disks as I could as archival images.

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New Apple II game: Raccoon City: Toronto Raccoon Simulator

Submitted by jlafleur on June 28, 2019 - 8:21pm

I've created a new Applesoft game for any Apple II with min 48k RAM!

Raccoon City: Toronto Raccoon Simulator lets you experience a 12 hour night in the life of a Toronto Raccoon! Wander the real city streets and back alleys of Toronto looking for trash to eat while encountering eight of the city’s natural wildlife creatures – from pigeons to skunks to fellow raccoons!

http://jesselafleur.ca/blog/index.php/raccoon-city-toronto-raccoon-simulator/

 

 

 

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Warp6 FIDO Gateway

Submitted by Spectre on June 28, 2019 - 12:21pm

Has anyone see or have a FidoNET gateway module for Warp6?  I've never heard of one, and blindly searching hasn't yielded any results. 

Thanks,

Spectre

 

-=< The Lower Planes BBS >=- tlp.zapto.org telnet/ssh/ftp

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Apple II Europlus scrambled display

Submitted by td75 on June 28, 2019 - 9:23am

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this great forum and was hoping to get some help on getting an Apple II Europlus working that I recently aquired.

It initially did not turn on at all so stripped down power supply and after replacing damaged capacitors, bridge rectifier and fuse, I now have power.

When I turn it on there is no beep but there is just a scrambled display as shown in image.

It looks like there has already been some work done on this motherboard previously as there is a machine pinned IC socket used for the 6502 CPU.

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