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Forum Observation

Submitted by mreg376 on April 12, 2025 - 11:09pm

I'm new to the Apple 8-bit and new to this forum.  When you first come here the wealth of information is terrifc, with detailed comprehensive threads that are iinvaluable resources.  And it's also a source of much orignal information and products.  But after you're here, the day-to-day discourse is pretty sparse.  Is that normal for this forum? 

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ADTPro question by barely above beginner

Submitted by mreg376 on April 10, 2025 - 6:29pm

So, I have "mastered" connecting my iMac to my Apple IIe by serial cable/USB adapter, running ADTPro on the iMac, and bootstrapping ADTPro to the IIe.  I have even been able to use the bootstrapping method to transfer disk images to the IIe and create boot floppies of various programs, by placing those images in the ADTPro "disks" subdirectory on the iMac and then doing a ProDos Speediboot, and selecting the image on the IIe.

 

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Unidisk 3.5" Drive (A2M2053) not detected? IWM issue?

Submitted by nmoslogic on April 9, 2025 - 11:56pm

Hello hopefully someone can help diagnose an issue with my Unidisk 3.5" Drive (A2M2053) the smart version with onboard cpu is related to its IWM or something else? I suspect it may have been connected to a Mac by po who had mostly mac computers, the issue is it is not been detected by the LIRON card in our IIe? Have confirmed LIRON interface card works and mechanics of the drive function.

 

From my research the IWM in the drive is a PROM (model VLI VF4060-001 344-0041-B IWM PDIP28) can I use the IWM on the LIRON to test?

 

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How to create/use an ORCA/C header file

Submitted by sbaker51 on April 8, 2025 - 5:43pm

I have a question about how to create/use a 'header' file on the Apple IIGS using ORCA/C

 

This topic is related to how to create, implement and use a user-defined function in ORCA/C v2.2 on an Apple IIGS.

 

 

The above function works within a program using it as a function prototype:

 

‘int gotoxy(int x, int y);’

 

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Help with creating an Apple II Disk

Submitted by Anonymoose on April 8, 2025 - 4:07pm

Hello,

I'm trying to create a DOS 3.3 disk for my FloppyEmu through CiderPress II or AppleCommander, but it doesnt seem to work. Simply putting the files into an image and using the Emu gives me an error of "File Not Found." I assume the process isnt as easy as just placing files in the .DO disk, so what am I doing wrong?

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Testing Applemouse interface card

Submitted by mreg376 on April 7, 2025 - 9:30pm

I just bought an Applemouse interface card off eBay for a good price.  Untested, but looks ok.  Good seller.  Will there be a way for me to test if the card is good before I "invest" in a mouse, which aren't cheap these days?

Thx.   

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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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