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Who has the knowledge of IIGS motherboard to help me troubleshooting a problem for a fellow owner?

A IIGS owner had asked for help on FB and I offered to help thinking it may be something simple they just weren't able to do themselves. Turns out my thinking was flawed!! This board has a problem and I'm running out of ideas and could use some help. The system came with a REMicro ROM01 chip and this is a ROM01 board.

 

 

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Practical Peripherals Microbuffer II ROM Dumps?

I have a Microbuffer II card here non-working (when plugged into an Apple][+, no beep and the screen is garbled lores blocks)  One of the things I'd like to do is verify the ROM's are good.  Does anyone have a known working card I could compare to?  thanks.

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Apple II 16k Language Card

I'm looking for an Apple II 16k Language Card. Simple right. ;) But a lot of them are old and beat on E-Bay.

 

There is this new design, different from the Microsoft version. I like it because I don't have to pull any chips to use it. It's on ebay: Apple II 16k Language Card

 

Has anybody tried this card out? Or have you heard about it? It's about the same price as a tested and working card. But I'd rather have something new, that I can just pop in, if it works.

 

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My 12V power supply conversion using PICO PSU and ATX4VC

Hi everyone, just wanted to show off what I've been working on for my Apple ][ Europlus

 

Using a Streacom Nano PSU, and an ATX4VC voltage conversion board by DekuNukem.

 

Custom made plate to mount the 12V connector, faceplate cut from a new C14 connector, a new power switch, and various other bits and pieces recycled from various places. New lengths of 18 gauge wire, and a new motherboard connector.

 

The original internals are completely in-tact and it is totally reversible!

 

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Clear face Kickstarter for Apple II floppy disk

In case somebody is interested, I started a Kickstarter for the transparent (clear) faceplate of the Apple II drive, that goes very nice with MacEffects' clear Apple II.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/a2floppyclearplate/apple-ii-floppy-drive-clear-face-plate 

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GSPlus-howto print from application to a file on Windows 10

I do not understand how  to print from an application running inside the GSPlus emulator. For example, there are no error messages that result from printing text from within the 'Teach' application, but I have no clue as to where said text is 'printed'.  By contrast, it is possible to print a text file from inside an application within the AppleWin emulator to a file named 'printer'txt' located in the folder in which the AppleWin.exe file resides.

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How I cleaned my Apple II Rev 0 funky no-worky keys on the Keyboard

Related to my other post regarding the repair of my Apple II Rev 0 computer at this link  https://www.applefritter.com/content/my-apple-ii-rev-0-psu-info is my solution for fixing keys that did not work.

After powering up the computer with no I/O cards, I hit Reset and got the expected VGA dispaly.  I did a key test, pressing each key down the rows of keys and found some keys didn't print on the screen, and some keys bounced resulting in several characters being printed on the screen.

 

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High quality single page schematics

Hi,

Does anybody knows of Apple ][ schematics that are on 1 big page (A2/A1) in high quality? It would so much easier to follow on screen and I would to get some of them printed on a big poster as well. I do remember in the 80's an electrician/enthusiast friend of my dad that had a whole collection of A1 or A2 schematics of Apple and Commodore he used to pull out when fixing them. I have been searching for a few days now and have found the traditional websites with the schematics split over multiple pages and often of medium quality.

Thanks!

  

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Video-7 RGB *without* 64k?

Does documentation exist for this card?  I believe it is RGB (it has a 15 connector)  but just not the RAM.  Anyone aware of this card?

 

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Apple //c repair video

Hi all,

 

I've recently purchased an apple //c for myself and I was told it had an issue with the floppy. Well, it turned out it was a bit more than that. I made a repair video, any feedback always welcome!

 

https://youtu.be/Eyc6LraD9O0

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