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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Apple ii+ Stuck Screen Characters

I recently purchased an Apple ][ Plus system. I have wanted one for a long time and finally saw one for a a decent price, knowing it had some issues. In the listing the seller said he couldn’t get it to display a stable image on a screen at all.

 

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Apple II only sees 1st 32K

I have a couple of issues with an Apple II+ that I got recently. As I don't have any good documentation on it and I found this forum I thought I'd give it shot here.

 

When running Apple II Confidence program I only see/can test the 1st 32K of memory (the last 16K between 32 and 48K isn't visible). The 1st 32K checks out without any issues through several passes so clearly something with the last 16K. If it was RAM chip(s) that was the issue I would have assumed that I would have seen the full 48K and that the RAM test would have nailed it down to the correct RAM chip(s).

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Weird Capacitor in Monitor //c

I'm try to repair/refurbish a Monitor //c and there's this weird capacitor that I can't find a replacement for.

 

C515 is a "4 uF 25V NP" cap. I can't find any such animal. Is there another cap I can safely use? 

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