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iigs emulator HD file wont boot on real iigs?

Submitted by acenewman on July 7, 2025 - 8:12pm

Spent a couple hours setting up a hard drive image for a iigs using the Gsplus emulator.  When I transfer the file to my tnfs server and try to boot it using my fujinet it doesn't recognize the file.  I just get the no boot devie screen.  Any thougts on what I am doing wrong?  File has a .hdv extension.  FIle boots and runs with no issues in Gsplus.  I have noticed that it's 32,768KB in my Gsplus directory.  When I tranfer the file using FileZilla using sftp it shows 33,533KB after the tranfer.  Is the file really growing in size??  Thanks, Chris

 

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Sickly PAL IIe - IOU chip

Submitted by LoccyDaBorg on July 6, 2025 - 3:05am

I've got an Apple IIe that had started to misbehave, culminating with it giving up entirely.

It had been working fine. I'd previously swapped out the keyboard Rom as that had given up the ghost, and there had also been an issue with the PAL encoder chip (the name of which escapes me now, but was a swap out replacement).

I had it out today as part of an exhibition, and it had been sitting there running Pac-Man. I noticed the machine had hung and restarted it. No problem, it came right back up, but after a while it stopped again.

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Quality Control at Capitol Records Canada using an Apple ][+

Submitted by MrGadget on July 5, 2025 - 4:06pm

Hello everyone,

 

Back in the early 1980s, I had the unique opportunity to work at Capitol Records in the Toronto, Ontario area. While the company produced both tapes and records, my role was centred in the tape manufacturing plant.

 

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Did the SmartDisk II ever work ?

Submitted by UncleBernie on July 5, 2025 - 1:21pm

Here is the github page (thanks, Wing, for pointing me to it):

 

https://github.com/btb/SmartDiskII

 

The front page claims that they replace the P6 PROM with a "2716 - compatible" EPROM. Which may not be fast enough to make the SmartDiskII work reliably in any Apple II.

 

In post #31 of this thread  I've shown the timing calculations  which call for a 150ns access time for such an EPROM substitute for P6:

 

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Smartport failure

Submitted by micware on July 5, 2025 - 3:54am

Hi all, I hope someone can help me for my problem. Several months ago, i decided to upgrade my Apple //c rom 255 to 4x. Everything was great and i bougth a Floppy Emu which work fine too. After one month, I decided to buy a Fujinet Apple also to make tests. After several days, my Apple stopped to recognize the Fujinet Apple and the Floppy Emu with a "No bootable device" error. I tried to exchange the ROM 4X, nothing happened. The strange thing is that if I connect an external drive as a second unit, it works like a charm. All is working except the smartport !!!

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New member. New (to me) Apple II plus with interesting card

Submitted by PeterKerr on July 3, 2025 - 2:18pm

Hi everyone. I guess I've been bitten by the retro computer bug. I'm building a Ben Eater 6502 kit with plans to evolve it into an Apple II like board over time. I found an Apple II plus for sale locally and figured it'd give me a good reference/comparison. 

 

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Apple IIe Card: Add Hard Disks, Making Floppy Disks and Much More!

Submitted by Chris T on June 30, 2025 - 6:04am

Apple IIe Card: Add Hard Disks, Making Floppy Disks and Much More!

The Apple IIe card, the last great hoorah for Steve Wozniaks and Steve Jobs love child, is in my Macintosh LC475, can I add multiple large hard disks to it? Can I write out 3.5" AND more importantly 5.25" floppy disks are well? How do we easily move data onto these disks? We look at the Floppy Emu and CiderPress II. Lets dive in and make the most of this wonder card from Apple.

 

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apple ii fujinet with real drives

Submitted by acenewman on June 29, 2025 - 9:41pm

Wondering if anyone out there is using their Fujinet in conjunction with real disk drives?  I have only had my Fujinet for a couple weeks so still figuring things out.  While I am loving the Fujinet I don't want to give up the abilty to use a floppy drive if possible.  I have tired many combinations with my Rom1 iigs, disk2 controller, yellowstone card, I/O controller card and can't seem to come up with a combo that lets me boot from the Fujinet but still have a working disk drive.   If someone is doing it I would love to hear what your setup is. 

 

Thanks, Chris

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Copying files to "Beautiful Boot" disks

Submitted by VeryVon on June 28, 2025 - 10:03am

Anyone know of a utility that will successfully copy (binary) files to a Beautiful Boot (BB) disk?  I know I can format a disk and put my binaries on there, then “beautify” it with the BB utility, but what if I want to copy a new file on there?  The docs say “Beautiful Boot resides on track 0, the disk’s VTOC is updated to free tracks 1, 2, and most of track 17 for more space.”

 

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IIGS not starting

Submitted by pcbishaf on June 24, 2025 - 10:12pm

I have been working on and off  on this IIGS motherboard.  I have got it to the point where the reset voltage is holding steady at +5 volts as it should be.  Mostly did this by swapping out some parts.  Now, the computer "starts" but hangs immediately.  I have included a screenshot.  

 

Does anyone have any idea what is happening?

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