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A new Apple II BBS....

Submitted by geneb on October 8, 2008 - 2:23pm

Yep, you read the subject line correctly. A brand new Apple II BBS has gone online for the first time in years!

I give you:

The Age of Reason BBS
telnet://aor.retroarchive.org

Running GBBS Pro v1.3j
Proudly featuring the online adventure game Land of Spur as modified by Trajan, former sysop of Dura Europos.

New users have instant access to the game. The system is new and may still have a rough edge or two, so please have patience. If you have a problem with the BBS, please let me know!

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Apple II* stuff for sale- what's valuable?

Submitted by swapple on October 8, 2008 - 1:22pm

Hello,

I need to de-computer. I have bushels of Apple items (too cute?). My plan was to ebay it, but selling through here may work.

The problem is many of these things may be too common and may not be worth the trouble on ebay. I've done some research. Some stuff will only sell for a buck or two.

Help me here- what items are interesting (I refuse to say @@@RARE@@@!)?

I appreciate honest answers,
Scott

***Systems***

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Joysticks & Paddles

Submitted by Panther96 on October 8, 2008 - 6:54am

I've got an original copy of Decathlon for my iie, on the third event (the shot putt) it requires paddles, now these are unbelievably hard to find in the UK ! However I've seen alot of adaptor leads to enable people to use the old Atari joysticks on the Apple, would the Atari Paddles also work ?

Some I've seen plug direct into a socket on the Motherboard, is this socket present on all iie's ?

Thanks as always !

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II+ Lowercase Shiftkey Mod & Display Question

Submitted by A2forever on October 7, 2008 - 9:16pm

Hi all.. I just came accross a super super clean II+ , it looks like it has a brand new replaced Keyboard along with a updated Keyboard Encoder! There apears to be a wire that leads from the Keyboard Encoder Board and connects to a IIC located directly under the II+'s Joystick Connector. My problem is I don't know how to enter the Shiftkey Mod , what keys you press or hold to enter using Lowercase. I tried the following program to display what characters are coming off of the SPECIAL ROM ....

10 FOR X=1 TO 255
20 ?CHR$(X);
30 NEXT X

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Question about The Boot-legger Magazine Disks.

Submitted by A2forever on October 7, 2008 - 3:08am

Does anyone know , off hand , about how many issues of The Boot-legger Magazine Diskette were created? I am trying to get an idea , as too how many I am missing.

Thanks.

Patrick.
A][4EVR.

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Apple II photo in Iron Man?!

Submitted by A2forever on October 2, 2008 - 2:36pm

Just noticed in Iron Man the movie , in the introduction to Tony Stark , there is a photo of an Apple II in it! Just thought it was neat to see that.

That's it , no problem , just a little tid bit. :O)

See ya

Patrick.
-A24VR-

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What's meant by double sided floppy discs ?

Submitted by Panther96 on October 2, 2008 - 1:30pm

OK, so it might seem a stupid question, but I'm more used to using 3 1/2 inch style floppies than the 5 1/4's.

I've got loads of Double Sided, Double Density 5 1/4's, but does the double sided mean the drive reads both sides with the disk in the drive, or that you can turn the disc over and read the other side, or am I barking up the wrong tree ?

:? :? :?

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Help with cards

Submitted by kwc on October 1, 2008 - 3:48pm

Came across some cards for the //e, but not quite sure what they are.

The 1st is an Apple card, labeled 1986, "The Engineering Dept", SRAM. Basically 3 IC's, two 62311c's, memory chips I think, and one PAL20R4ACNS. Is this some kind of memory card ?

The 2nd is a Legend Industries Soft Disk 128KDE. Populated with 16 - MB8264 memory chips. Would this be a 128k ram drive ?

Computer Inspector does not recognize either card. Software required ? Any chance either might work in the //gs ?

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Colour on a iie

Submitted by Panther96 on October 1, 2008 - 7:13am

I've looked up the Apple iie on wikipedia and it states some graphic modes as being in colour, does the iie have colour built in or is a seperate card required :?

Also out of interest I've read that it outputs a composite signal and therefore a standard TV with composite input can be used, mine is a UK 240v model, so would it be in PAL or NTSC ?

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Super Serial Card Cables

Submitted by Panther96 on October 1, 2008 - 2:49am

I'm trying to connect my iie to my PC and have decided that a Super Serial card is the way to go, I've tried the audio route without success Sad

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