Apple II

I've been looking around various sources for docs for the ALS Smarterm II 80-column card but haven't had any luck. Does anyone happen to have a copy for sale or one that I could borrow to scan? The Videx card that came with my Apple II+ is dead right now and I'd like to setup the Smarterm card until I have the Videx working.

Thanks! Brian

I just got my first II plus and so far things are going pretty well.

I've upgraded the PSU, and I put in a ROMX. The old ROM under the keyboard was a dianetics lowercase ROM, but I pulled that to install the ROMX completely. Presumably due to changing that ROM, I found intermittent boot behaviour with the mystery card in slot 3 which appears to be a generic 80 column card w/no cables. I pulled the (presumed) 80 column card, and things are pretty good. 

Hi All!

I posted a while ago about making Apple IIGS disks in general and have basically solved that problem with what I have.  I have an unusual setup in that I don't have a Floppy Emu, I have a prototype smartport device that is capable of 4X32mb HD images and that's about it.  So, to make 3.5 disks I merely converted the images to .po and then copied in GS/OS.  Worked like a charm especially for games that need to run from startup or don't work from HD image/aren't present on HD images for some reason.  So, great--that worked.

I have a question about Super Serial Card support on software such as ProTERM, Ascii Express, Agate, ADTPro, etc.

Does the software use the ROM on the card, or even check for the ROM on the card, when using the Super Serial Card?  Most of the logic on the SSC is to handle the paging of the ROM banks, and if the ROM is not needed for most software, a vastly simplified card with just a 65SC51 and line drivers could be used.  It seems to me for software that has its own drivers the 65SC51 registers would be accessed directly and the ROM would not be necessary.