Help needed for my Philips monitor

Hello gurus, I bought a IIe with several interesting cards (chat mauve, MS soft card, Apple mouse and disk interfaces, printer interface), a HP printer, tons of disks, two DIsk II drives and one Philips monitor PCT 1201. The IIe connected to the SCART input of my TV works well and displays everything correctly. I then tried the RCA output to the Philips monitor and I have nothing but a thin central line. See http://www.brutal-deluxe.fr/public/Philips/PHILIPS.JPG (a big file of 1.8 MB which displays APPLE ][ or sort-of) Do you have any ideas of what I can do? As I won't be the s

USCD Pascal on a CFFA drive

Hello, I have recently become more active in Pascal programming. I own a CFFA card and found a single post on Rich's message board about that it is possible to install Pascal on his card. However if I try it ( 32 MB CF and CFFA in Slot5 ) I get two drives (#11,#12) with a size of -2816 blocks. I can not format those drives or copy files because I a "No room on device". Do I need patch so that the Pascal System can work with the CFFA? Anybody has done this and can me guide through it? Thanks, Wulf

Happy as a clam

Today I took an antique tube radio down to this radio museum to see about repairs. During the discussion my interest in Apple IIs came up and the fellow asked me to go with him into the back. There sat a II+ in the original box with a disk II in the original box. A fairly late model RFI II+ that came with the usual books and cards but also number of fliers from the period and a ROM card with Integer basic & the pre-autostart monitor ROM. Had a problem with the floppy drive. Something on the Disk II card is blowing ULN2003 chips in the drives analog card. I think maybe I'll cut my l

AppleWorks Forum scans

After more than a year of inactivity, I've resumed scanning issues of NAUG's AppleWorks Forum. Thanks go to Bill for lighting the proverbial fire under my rear to resume this project. Volume 4, issues 10, 11 and 12 have been scanned and uploaded. Get them here: http://appleworksforum.net/volumes/4/ - Mike

Karateka 'superpunch' vid

I just put a vid up on Youtube in which I demonstrate my patented (well, it's not reeeally patented) 'superpunch' technique for Apple II Karateka. Remember, with great power comes great responsibility, as they said about 50 times during Sam Raimi's 'Spiderman'... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-ThZbenw0I

review of Carte Blanche?

There were 50 produced according to applelogic.org Is anyone doing any HDL projects? Opinions, reviews of people who purchased them? Rich

Joe Kohn tribute compilation

Several members of the Apple II community contributed their remembrances of Joe Kohn to the March issue of Juiced.GS, which shipped today. Friends who knew Joe as an editor, user group member, beta tester, KansasFest roommate, and Deadhead all shared their unique perspectives on this Apple II luminary. Joe's passing is a loss for all of us, and it didn't feel right to share this tribute with an exclusive group -- so that four-page article from the print edition has been excerpted as a standalone PDF and made available for download: http://juiced.gs/samples/ I hope this collect

REQ: Passport Designs MIDI card manual

Does anyone have a copy of this? From what I read it has programming information that would be useful to add MIDI support to KEGS (really need to know how the card's slot I/O is mapped to registers). Wayne Stewart scanned it in a few years back but I can't seem find a copy. Address in header is dead, forward it to njroadfan at good ol' gmail dot com. Thanks in Advance.

apple II ethernet

Would these actually have some use, ie. drivers, etc. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190289251109 He seems to have more than a few, and at $19.95 delivered...

A Nice Round of Updates...

....include publication and hardware scans, a manual or two, some patched games that now work from a hard drive and System 6 and some curious titles dependent on laser discs: http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/news/ -- - Alex http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/

Working with Uthernet?

A week or so I did a mockup of a standalone IRC app for an Apple //e and thought I might want to try my hand at writing the core. I've written IRC stuff before, but only for PCs. I know nothing about 8-bit network stuff or about the Uthernet, although obviously that's my best route (alongside possibly ppp/slip support for the Super Serial and its GS counterpart). Does anyone have any good sample code? Also, as I don't have any way to test this in hardware, I presume I'll need to run applewin in vmware? (Linux user. I don't think running applewin in WINE is gonna let me use networ

A new version of Super Star Trek for the Ap2

Try my 'new' (IE previously unreleased anyplace) version of Super Star Trek for the Apple II Time to share another old game of mine with folks in the internet age :) You can download the disk image here: http://home.iprimus.com.au/bloomer/STARTREK.zip In 1995 I put together this version of ye olde 'Super Star Trek' game, using pseudo-animated mousetext graphics and some nice sound effects. The interface is also friendly, you just tap a key to do most things. The game mechanics are from the version of 'Super Star Trek' from David Ahl's 'Basic Computer Games'. As a tiny kid I

ADTPro 1.1.5 released

A little help here for our clone friends: the Laser 128 can now go full throttle at 115.2kbps, and the Franklin Ace 500 correctly auto- selects its modem port. The included DOS ADT program is similarly enhanced, though experiments are still ongoing there for nibble copying. I also implemented the main idea behind Oliver Schmidt's LOADER.SYSTEM to eliminate the need for a BASIC program selector, significantly speeding up boot and launch. Side benefit: Apple ][s with 64k and no Applesoft in ROM now run without any modification/ renaming of files. I left BASIC.SYSTEM on the distributi

Is Raster Blaster in the public domain?

I remember hearing back in the 90's about Bill Budge supposedly putting his early Apple II work in the public domain, and if you google it you'll find a couple of posts talking about that around '93. Can anybody confirm this? Preferably with Bill if you know him. Lost Classics has an empty "BudgeCo" category. Cheers, Nick.

Vintage Apple II Plus and Dot Matrix Printer - $55 (cupertino)

Vintage Apple II Plus and Dot Matrix Printer - $55 (cupertino) Date: 2010-02-26, 2:42PM PST Reply to: see below Vintage Apple II Plus computer Drive 1 and 2 Monitor (needs repair) Dot Matrix Printer CP80 C.T.I. (no ribbon) $55.00 See pictures Call 408-296-6302

carte blanche run # 2?

is there a 2nd run in planning?

Looking for Meekins' Merlin2Orca converter

Dear All, I am looking for a usable version of Tim Meekins' Merlin 2 Orca converter. It can be found in asimov and some other places but I am unable to use that version. It seems to be a raw extract of a old newsgroup message and I cannot do anything with it. Your help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Antoine

Copying what I can from bit rotted disks?

Hi, I have one disk in particular that has sadly become a victim of bit rot. It's a flippy with various music programs on both sides. It loads the Textalker software, and was part of a set of talking disks with lots of public domain software on them. It is DOS 3.3. I have no idea who put together this collection of disks, or I'd ask if anyone has a replacement, as well as any other disks in the set I don't have. There were probably over fifty of these disks. In any event, on this particular disk, both sides have been victimized by bit rot, and some of the programs are not

Apple //e Not Booting

After being unplugged from the power for a while, I went to use my Apple //e today. When I flip the power switch there are twelve evenly spaced bars running horizontal across the screen. I do not get the beep. It does not say "Apple //e" at the top of the screen. The red power light is on on the motherboard, and the green power light near the numeric keypad is green. I opened the power supply: none of the capacitors are blown. I've removed the Apple 5.25 drive controller from the board, along with a serial card in slot 2: still exhibits the same symptoms. I also removed the 8

Diagnosing and fixing a faulty Disk II drive

I have a Disk II drive that is giving me some problems. When my Apple is first powered up and I run some standard disk alignment tests, I will get read/write errors in the drive. However, after the drive has warmed up, the tests will pass 100%. Drive speed is right at 300 rpm and I've cleaned the read/write head. My thought is that the stepper motor might be a little sticky until it warms up and maybe needs some lubrication but this is total speculation on my part. Does anyone have any suggestions? If it's a sticky motor, what kind of lubricant is safe? Thanks, Eric

ADTPro 1.1.4 released

Nothing spectacular here, unless you use (or have tried to use) the audio connection. I am ready to cautiously claim victory over a long- standing bug that could erroneously consider a packet acknowledged when it really wasn't, due to a return acknowledgement packet getting garbled just so. It turns out that just about everybody hit it, though. http://adtpro.sourceforge.net New functionality: * [Server] Re-scan for serial ports every time the serial config gui comes up; detects USB port changes Bug fixes: * [Server] Fixed a protocol bug that made the server

iDisk on IIgs

Hi, one of the most annoying feature of iDisk is that you must set the IIGS speed to "normal" or it don't work. The iDisk team claim that it is perfectly compatible with the DISK II controller but, if I will put a DISK II controller into a IIGS, it works with the speed set to "fast". On Technical Introduction to the APPLE IIGS, page 85 you can read: There are three different ways of changing the operating speed. First, the user can use the Control Panel to set the speed. Second, if a slot has s DISK II controller card in it, the firmware switches to the 1 Mhz speed whenever that

Syndicomm status report

Just a quick status report: I know there are several long-pending orders waiting to ship, and I want to post a note to explain this latest delay. At the beginning of this month, my father in law offered to let me use an 800 square foot office in a building he owns. As a result, I've been spending the last three weeks gradually moving my stuff into the office. I'd hoped to get some of Syndicomm's pending orders shipped during this time, but between the move and various personal life issues, that hasn't happened. This week, I'm starting to move equipment and supplies used to process

Buying equipment?

Hi, Other than eBay and local thrift/secondhand stores, is there any major place where people buy and sell Apple equipment? E.G. a website, mailing list, etc. The reason I ask is, I'm in the market for a ROM 3 GS, all I really need is the main unit. However, in my experience, a lot of the units on eBay are totally untested, and are of the "Pulled from a working environment, we know nothing about it, don't have any software, so can't test, powers up and lights up" variety. Is there a place where Apples are sold, where they're being sold by people who really do know about v

Which would you keep: ZipGSX or TWGS?

I managed to pick up a ZipGSX from eBay last week, a stock 8MHz/16K that ran Modulae for hours without any issues. I also recently managed to upgrade a TWGS to a very stable 10MHz/32K. The ZipGS doesn't have a socket for the oscillator, so I'm stuck at 8MHz for now, but I suppose I can take the cache up to 64K with ReactiveMicro's help. I couldn't find the Benchmark v5.0 program, does anyone have a copy? It's not up on Asimov when I looked. So assuming I don't need to have both, which one should I keep? Which one would you keep? Also managed to pick up a MockingBoard, which