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Classic ide firmware

Submitted by Wayne on February 1, 2025 - 5:30pm

I have a Technobytes Classic Ide card that has a problem. I’m wondering if a firmware update might solve the problem. However I can’t seem to locate a firmware update. Does anyone know where I might find it?

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Any Apple2-native C users out there?

Submitted by Harry Potter on February 1, 2025 - 4:38pm

Hi!  I've been creating a special program for Super C users from the CBM community, but it was cancelled due to lack of interest.  :(  I really enjoyed it, too!  :'(  Is anybody here an Apple2-native C programmer?  I don't want to tell the nature of this project; I just want to know if anybody here is in the program's audience.

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cc65 text compression: PrintTok

Submitted by Harry Potter on February 1, 2025 - 4:10pm

Hi!  I have a text compression program for cc65 and its CBM, Apple2 and Atari8 targets called PrintTok or PrintTok1.  The CBM community rejecgted it, and I have yet to try Atarians, so I'm coming here.  PrintTok is a program to print out strings compressed using tokenization and helped out the C64 version of my Smir 3, 1 text adventure's database file by about 43.1%.  Its current issues are that it doesn't compress literals and doesn't support automatic compression.  I'm currently working on PrintTok2, but, even though I got it to work several times, the compression ratio was poor.  :(  If

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Apple IIgs flickering / fading video (and/or no video at all). Bad caps or something else?

Submitted by SpaceBoy on February 1, 2025 - 1:06am

Hi all!

 

My trusty Apple IIgs (ROM1) is suddenly a lot less trusty than it used to be. I've noticed that recently the image on my AppleColor RGB Monitor (the IIgs monitor) has been flickering, so I had it professionally recapped and refurbished by a legit CRT expert (Andy King of the CRT Database website). Based on his post-recap testing using different video source, I'm confident that the monitor works fine now.

 

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I've Killed My Apple ][ plus

Submitted by Sarnian on January 30, 2025 - 4:18pm

Need some help fault finding / repairing my Apple ][ europlus

 

I stupidly plugged in the Disk ][ Interface Card in while it was still switched on and now it just makes a clicking noise out of the speaker.

 

Is definitly not the power supply clicking as it stops when I unplug the speaker. I have also tested the power supply and getting the usual +5 and 12 and -5 and 12.

I have also tested the 6502 in another computer.

 

Hoping someone has made this mistake before me and managed to sucsefully repair.

 

Thanks

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Apple II Clone PAL colour without extra card

Submitted by Riksnet on January 28, 2025 - 12:06pm

I have an apple 2plus clone (sherry). This always produced a messed up screen in HGR but with colour, and of course the wrong colours. It's a 14,318 crystal and jumpers are set to pal/50 and I use it with a lcd monitor. After  one year of trying to sort out this messed screen, I found today that the /7M trace from B1 was broken, once I restored it I now get full grapahic and in perfect colour. But how is this actually possible??? I'm using a standard Apple ROM not a special ITT ROM, there is no special PAL card in it, and the layout seems like a rev 7 copy all TTL no special chips.

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Lots of Apple ][ hardware & software for sale

Submitted by Ratso222 on January 26, 2025 - 10:19am

Anything I have I will sell for $1 each if you pay for shipping. I cannot bring myself to trash them. I have lots of 5.25 disks and 3 inch software, original and pirated. I have  3 floppy drives that need calibration. One is dmaged. I even have a bare bones chasis with the motherboard and zipchip. I might have Ram Works bord too. Seriously, only 1 dollar plus shipping, and any profit I get will be donated to a no-kill animal shelter in South Jersey.

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Apple 2 viruses

Submitted by Jiroplas on January 26, 2025 - 8:49am

I'm looking for viruses in the Apple II. Please, if you have an infected file, virus, or virus code, write to me:

 ornitishee@gmail.com

 cciter228@gmail.com 

orrnlqvlgh@gmail.com

The viruses I'm looking for:

Star fighter II 

Dos 3.3 killer 

CANCER DOS 

Odyssey 2001 

Elk Cloner 

Burp 

VIRUS 3 (DELLINGER VIRUS) 

HAUSER VIRUS 

LEE’S DISKITIS 

INIT VIRUS 

CyberAIDS 

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Apple IIe Inverted T Arrow Key Layout Mod

Submitted by CVT on January 26, 2025 - 1:45am

I am sure others have come up with this mod before me:

 

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Help creating Disk II floppys

Submitted by Sarnian on January 23, 2025 - 6:16pm

Have been given an Apple ][ europlus for christmas with a Disk II drive and a BMOW Floppy Emu. The Floppy Emu is working fine but not owning any Apple Disk II floppys I'm unable to test the drive.

 

I have been using https://asciiexpress.net/diskserver/ to create images on the Emu but it fails to create disks using the Disk II drive.

I have some used double density disks, my question is can I use them and what software should I use to format them? Or what can else can I use to test the drive?

 

 

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