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A2USB: Apple II Mouse Interface Card & USB Support

Submitted by MacFly on January 1, 2024 - 10:50am

I wrote a blog article on a new firmware project: A2USB. Adds USB support to the well-known A2VGA boards and emulates an Apple II Mouse Interface Card - connecting a standard USB mouse.

Currently requires a bit of tinkering - as described in the blog. Already works really well, but still needs testing on more and other machines.

Creating this forum topic for possible discussions - in case someone wanted to give this a try...

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Questions abou my new apple II

Submitted by StefanUlm on December 31, 2023 - 12:10pm

Hi everybody,

 

in my youth the Apple II was the unreachable dream. I had to settle with a ZX 81. Now i bought all the machines of my youth again (ZX81, Dragon 32, Amiga 500) and finally also got myself an Apple II europlus. It has a lot of expansion cards. For some of them I have questions that I could find no answers online.

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Lower case on the Apple II+ WITHOUT the shift mod?

Submitted by Screwtape on December 30, 2023 - 2:24am

I went back home for Christmas, and my father had retrieved my boyhood Apple II+ from storage. We originally got it second-hand, and it came with some expansion cards and some mods installed, but I was a child, so whatever the computer did was what I assumed it was supposed to do. Now I'm older and a little nostalgic, I've spent some time reading up about the Apple II+ hardware, watched some videos about how things were supposed to work, and grown curious about how my Apple II+ had been configured.

Skipping ahead to the observations:

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Building Videx compatible 80 column card

Submitted by softwarejanitor on December 26, 2023 - 5:56pm

I am building this today:

 

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Building MicroSci/Franklin FDC clones

Submitted by softwarejanitor on December 26, 2023 - 2:51pm

Here is what I am builidng today...

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Apple II and IIe power supply RIFA replacements

Submitted by Stargeezer on December 25, 2023 - 7:12pm

Merry Christmas all:

Perhaps the community can help me out here.

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Apple IIc memory chip replacement

Submitted by Giano on December 22, 2023 - 11:06am

Hello,

I'm planning to restore my Apple IIc and I've noticed that RAM chips are defective.

I've searched Internet to find these chips replacement, without any luck.

Any suggestions or pointers ? Ideally an European shop would be a plus. 

Heaps of thanks.

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Pineapple (clone) just let the smoke out

Submitted by softwarejanitor on December 21, 2023 - 4:59pm

I was playing with one of my clones, a Pineapple...  Unfortunately it "let the smoke out".  I had just booted the game "Ghostbusters" and was listing to the intro music when all of a sudden it got staticy and then PUFFFF!!! 

 

It appears that one of the differences between a Pineapple and an Apple ][+ is that it has a ULN2283B amplifier chip for the sound.  There is a volume knob on the back of the machine and I had the volume cranked and apparently that was too much for it.  The chip looks crispy.  Hopefully it is not an unobtanium item.

 

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Apple II+ 48k 6502 and/or rom issue

Submitted by LennyStudios on December 17, 2023 - 10:53pm

I have a 48k apple II+ with no expansion cards, and whenever I try to execute certain AppleSoft basic functions (HCOLOR, COLOR, PLOT, HPLOT, IF, FOR, LEFT$, just to name a few) it spits back a memory address at EC46 with different values depending on the function it didn't like. In monitor mode, when I run Ctrl+E to get the 6502 registers, it has the same values every time.

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Common capacitor failure? 16k ram card

Submitted by HiSir on December 16, 2023 - 6:42pm

16k memory ram card, had a capacitor smoke.   I had installed a new Apple II VGA card I had just assembled and was testing the machine.   I had considered leaving the top of the case open while I tested my newly built card but I didn't since I was running out of desk room.

 

I out the cover in and powered the machine on and my VGA card seemed to be working perfectly.  Although it didn't seem to work in 80 columns on my II+ but I am not sure of that is normal or not. I turned the machine off after about 10mins.

 

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