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Replacing DIsk ][ Drivebelt

Submitted by IIeBoy on April 4, 2015 - 4:59pm

Hi, can anyone suggest some alternative material I could use to replace an Apple Disk ][ Drivebelt? I've tried a rubber band to mixed success, but need something sturdier. I see one for sale online but at $20 I'm sure there's a better household option.

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Announcing the Marina IP stack for Apple II

Submitted by Dog Cow on April 2, 2015 - 9:26pm

Because I wanted to learn more about ethernet and TCP/IP networking, and because I was dissatisfied with existing TCP/IP implementations for the Apple, I decided to write my own implementation. It is called Marina.

I started on February 1st of this year, taking a Uthernet/CS8900A driver that I'd written about 2 years ago, and in 2 months' time I have written decent implementations of IP, ARP, UDP, DHCP, with little bits of ICMP, and the start of a DNS resolver.

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Apple II+ Keyboard Mod - Questions/thoughts?

Submitted by Zan8675 on March 27, 2015 - 9:26pm

Hi all, have a II+ with a shift key mod on steroids. The machine does not currently boot, have to swap the power supply and check a few things before I can actually
try it out.

mean time, I have never seen a mod quite like this (although I've never seen a lot of things!)

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Merlin 8 LIST Formatting Issue

Submitted by mbaran on March 25, 2015 - 10:54pm

Hi everyone!

Hopefully someone much smarter than I can help me out here. Trying to build a game from source with Merlin 8 and I am getting odd formatting.

I've tried with both AppleWin and my own //c and get similar results.

Notepad++ doesn't show any odd formatting

Yet doing a LIST in Merlin shows these solid white "J" on every line

NOT FOUND: error.JPG

Thoughts? It obviously wont assemble due to that character.

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Drive 2 making a strange low brief whirring

Submitted by IIeBoy on March 25, 2015 - 8:22pm

All is going well with my new //e setup, with one caveat. When I try to scan drives in ADTPro, Drive 1 sounds normal, but Drive 2 gives a quick, low, whiz or whirr sound.

I have not yet read or written to Drive 2 because:

A) I don't have any software that needs to, and;
Dirol I cannot remember or find on Google the command to save a file to Drive 2 from DOS or ProDOS (if that's even possible)

Questions:

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Apple IIGS repair help needed

Submitted by vintagebytes on March 24, 2015 - 3:06am

Hi everyone,

I'm stuck with one of my Apple IIGS.
It started, when I received my Transwarp GS card. The card seems to be unstable and I've found out, that the connector to the CPU socket seems to have connection problems. So I replaced the CPU socket with a new one on the GS board. Then my problems started Smile

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ORCA C Question on the Apple IIgs

Submitted by retrocomputer22 on March 19, 2015 - 2:20pm

Has anyone used ORCA C for the Apple IIgs? If so, how is it?

I've been coding in C for a long time on other platforms and now I
m interested on porting some things to the GS. I don't know much about
orca C but I was thinking about buying it.

Does anyone have a copy of the manual they could share with me? If I read
through the manual, I should be able to tell if the stuff I want to port
would be worth doing. I would also like to learn a bit more about ORCA C
before throwing down $100.00, I've looked all over the net for a manual
or more info, but information on ORCA C is scarce.

Thanks,
Jeffrey

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Can anyone remember this "futuristic" generic green Apple ][ monitor with no bezel?

Submitted by IIeBoy on March 17, 2015 - 9:37pm

Hi all, can anyone help me track down the make and model of the green or amber composite monitor my parents had for our family Apple //e. I can't find any sign of it on eBay or Google Images (but lots of photos of Amber Heard which is quite distracting), yet my memory is distinct.

- It wasn't Apple branded AFAIK
- It had little or no visible bezel (plastic frame) around the screen

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