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Broken keyboard - help?

Submitted by rittwage on February 19, 2009 - 7:06pm

Hello friends,

I finally got an old Apple IIe (non-platinum) with a couple of Disk ][ drives off ebay, and of course the seller didn't pack it well and several keys are broken off. Does anyone have or sell the keyswitches (with the stems that go in the keycaps) or just have an old broken keyboard I can buy for parts to make mine whole again?

Peter Rittwage
mailto:peter@rittwage.com

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Curious, how large is the Apple II community?

Submitted by apple2ee on February 18, 2009 - 7:39pm

I was wondering if anyone had any guestimates of how many old Apple II fans are out there in 2009? There seems to be an abundance of items for sale on Ebay so I would expect the hobby is fairly popular. I've recently gotten back into it after dragging my old Apple IIe out of the basement and am really enjoying the ability to connect my Apple IIe to my Mac using the Virtual II emulator and A2V2/ADT. I used the Super Serial Card method and it works great.

-just curious

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Looking for old Alice In Wonderland Game (not the Windham Classic)

Submitted by bmh on February 18, 2009 - 8:08am

Hi All!

I'm hoping someone knows or can remember this game and point me in the right direction.

When i was a kid, I used to play this Alice in Wonderland game on Apple IIe computers at school; we're talking late 80s here.

Now, I've googled, but it is definitely NOT this game:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/apple2/alice-in-wonderland

The above game is based on the Below the Root engine etc and is a sidescrolling RPG type game, and the game I used to play was NOT.

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Disk ][ drive sounds bad

Submitted by apple2ee on February 17, 2009 - 6:31pm

I have 2 Disk ][ drives. Drive 1 sounds silky smooth, Drive 2 sounds like it is struggling. Drive 2 makes a much louder higher pitched studder noise when kicking off an init, it is louder when writing, and it also throws in a high pitched squeak every once in a while. It just doesn't sound as healthy as Drive 1.

Is there any maintenance I can do to make this Drive 2 a little quieter and smoother?

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uthernet/ethernet card for Apple II PLUS Tech Q

Submitted by rocketscientists on February 15, 2009 - 10:07pm

Anyone here tried ethernet/uthernet cards for the Apple II PLUS? Any recommendations and any feedback on any particular one? What will it do? Ease of use? Do fill me in. Thanks
-RocketScientists

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Apple IIGS Formatting Questions

Submitted by Piglet on February 13, 2009 - 10:11pm

http://www.8bitcollective.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=6361

Basically you can see my problem. I have a new OSX Mac and a Windows 98 I believe. I have USB floppy burner/reader. I believe I have the old DD floppies and the "new" floppies. Also does anybody have the disk image for the newest version of Noisetracker (which I believe is 4.0?) and the disk image for the newest version of Soundsmith that they could send me? Thank you all so much for your help! Sorry that I am not well versed enough in this topic. Thank you again!

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Apple IIgs Video Sync Question

Submitted by TheKisho on February 13, 2009 - 7:56pm

Does anyone know what type of sync the Apple IIgs outputs (on the RGB output)? Positive or negative. If negative how do you convert it to Positive.

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Disk ][ Speed Testing - need troubleshooting advice

Submitted by apple2ee on February 10, 2009 - 9:54pm

I'm running Copy II plus v8.2 on two Disk ][ drives using an Apple IIe (I copied it over to the apple IIe disk using ADT). I suspect I have bad 5.25 disks that I mail ordered recently. However, I'm checking the drive speed to be sure. Drive 1 is successful in initializing the new disks 90 percent of the time. Disk 2 is almost never successful. Disk 2 sounds crunchier than disk 1 when it reads and writes and tries to init a disk. Disk 2 has been opened and checked for head dirt, it is clean.

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Checking Drive speed with Copy II Plus, which version should I use?

Submitted by apple2ee on February 10, 2009 - 6:11am

I am going to check the speed of a Drive ][ connected to a standard Apple IIe. Does it matter which version of Copy II Plus I use to read the speed? I noticed there are a number of versions available. Which one should I try to use. -thanks

Also, when adjusting drive speed, how far does the speed screw need to be turned to make a noticeable difference? Barely any or alot? I don't want to over crank it on the first try.

Any other random speed tuning advice would be appreciated. THANKS.

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Apple II PLUS tech Q on IC and power indicator light

Submitted by rocketscientists on February 9, 2009 - 3:20pm

Hi

I have an JAMECO 16K RAM card that is currently in slot 0 of my Apple II plus. It also has a ribbon cable that plugged into the IC location E1. Does anyone know what was the original IC that went in this slot? I need to replace the chip in to debug a couple of minor problems.

Also, my power indicator light is out (missing). I have the Apple II PLUS that has the power indicator button flush with the system. Anyone know what kind of bulb and voltage rating that went in there?

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