I joined the Apple community today. I found an Apple IIe collection for the right price, with so many extras.... (6 disk drives, a TransWarp accelerator card, 1MB RAM expansion, etc etc etc) and even the original receipts and manuals - just a vast collection.
Welcome to the Applie ][e world! (Got one myself, along with a //c).
When you're ready to venture out into Atari land... Just say the word. :)
Some of that is "interesting" and some is pretty normal :) With 6 floppies you'll be able to mount up almost all the floppies for Ultima
V. Haven't been there in uhmm maybe 30 years. The 1mb card is mildly interesting, problem with those things is not much will actually utilise it. Its not like your 65c02 can address it. AppleWorks will load stuff onto it, otherwise it mostly looks like a ramdrive. Over here we don't tend to see to many IIe accelsiorators, so thats always spiffy.
The media alternatives to look for, are the FloppyEmu, its your SD card image based drive emulator, although it only mounts one image at a time. Mebbe a CFFA3000, but I don't know that these are still available and not having one, can't comment on it to much, its meant to be pretty much
swiss army knife though. The last would be an MDT, Micro Drive Turbo. Its a HD emulation using CF cards.
I'll vouch for the floppulator and the MDT having both. On a IIe
probably worth having a look at Apple II Desktop. Its a gui on top of ProDOS for a //c or IIe. Otherwise you have CLI ProDOS, or DOS3.3, the rest of the possibilities are thinner on the ground, CP/M if you have a Z80 card, USCD pascal there's not much else off hand.
I used the Apple ][e in middle school and loved those things! Green screens. The computer was "huge" and had room with expansion slots - something a C64 kid wasn't used to. I now have an Apple //c but have not yet gotten it on the interwebs or BBSs.
|10:)|07 is your atari computer ran via emulation or the real deal?
I used the Apple ][e in middle school and loved those things! Green screens. The computer was "huge" and had room with expansion slots - something a C64 kid wasn't used to. I now have an Apple //c but have
not yet gotten it on the interwebs or BBSs. --Matt
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I used the Apple ][e in middle school and loved those things! Green screens. The computer was "huge" and had room with expansion slots -
So I don't think I have a 1MB RAM expansion... there is an external RAMCharger unit, which documentation sayes it was for a 1MB RE... but nowhere to be found; the RAMCharger sounded kind of antiquated anyway. (As if ALL of this stuff isn't... LOL.)
Yea, the TransWarp IS pretty cool - it was tripping me up earlier, tho; while using asciiexpress.net or ADTPro, you must turn it off or the audio LOAD doesn't work properly. Sometimes it amazes me at HOW one figures that
I've been using ProDOS 2.4.2... so I'm already noticing something w/ graphics - I tried Apple II Desktop; I thought the version I found (asciiexpress.net) wasn't in English, but after booting a couple games I noticed that it was actually my screen or the graphics; it seems like its missing every-other column, or missing some columns at the very least. Maybe I'm not booting in 80 column mode, but that doesn't make sense b/c all softwares booted right from a disk... hmmmm. Have to figure that out. (All text modes, both 40 and 80 column, display perfectly... and whats weird is I think *some* graphics I've loaded looked correct; like thru a BASIC program, or 'Apple Presents...' disks...
Apples were where I got my start in school too. My friend had one
growing up (my other friend out of our nerd trio had a TS1000, TS2068 and then finally an Apple //c). Of course, when the time came, dad bought an Atari due to the games (and his best college friend having a 400). Of course, we went the 800xl route.
Welcome to the Applie ][e world! (Got one myself, along with a
//c). When you're ready to venture out into Atari land... Just
say the word. :)
You know the funny thing... the seller also had an Atari 400,
working, that they would have let go for almost any OK offer. If it
had been an 800 I might have l00ked a little harder - but I left it
there. UGH.
Welcome to the Applie ][e world! (Got one myself, along with a
//c). When you're ready to venture out into Atari land... Just
say the word. :)
You know the funny thing... the seller also had an Atari 400,
working, that they would have let go for almost any OK offer. If it
had been an 800 I might have l00ked a little harder - but I left it
there. UGH.
Chuckle, RamCharger and a RamFactor card were on the drool list. In typical AE fashion the combo tended to be a bit unreliable. Probably
bad quality control rather than initial design or QC. The RamCharger essentially turns the RamFactor into a solid state drive. There should
be a battery, a wall charger and a card that plugs into both the motherboard and the "ramcard". It supplies both refresh and power.
The issue will be DMA I expect. You can only have one DMA device in your IIe, it doesn't know what to do with more and causes bus issues. Most IIe accelsiorators run in almost full time DMA suspending the onboard processor function.
Hmmm could be a couple of things... could depend on the age of the IIe, early versions weren't reliable at "double hi-res" the mode that Apple Desktop runs in. It could be faulty memory on your 80col card. Off hand you'd probably want to disable the accelerator and try the self-test, ctl-solid apple-reset see if it throws any errors. Or it could be the accelerator again, they tend to run in full time DMA as much as
possible, they also tend to mirror Bank0 ram. This means it can't see
the Bank1 memory which lives on the 80col card and is vital to the
missing sections of video. Basically double-hires uses the video ram on the motherboard, and the equivalent out on the 80col card to give double the width graphics. The disks you've been playing with aside from the Desktop would be running in Hi-Res.. doesn't access the extra memory and will look fine.
You might want to check the 80col card, it'll be in the auxilliary slot away from the other slots. It may be a RamWorks card, more memory than the regular 64k on an 80col card. It'll hold up to 1Mb depending on its version. Early ones were 256/512k.
While playing around with it initially, I'd be inclined to pull the accelerator. See what works, and once your happy with that and
everything functions put the accelerator back in and see what it interferes with.
Yeah, I'll be honest, the 400 isn't one of the machines I'm looking for
Yea, I'm gonna have another POKE around.. I'll be certain to PEEK in all the boxes, but I don't think theres a RamFactor card; its an expansion slot card, right, not some daughter board or anything?
awesome back then - but man, people really trusted software to that?! I
While playing around with it initially, I'd be inclined to pull the accelerator. See what works, and once your happy with that and
thought about the accelerator, but I usually have it switched OFF when I'm loading a game - however, maybe a DIP switch isn't set right; if you
Yeah, I'll be honest, the 400 isn't one of the machines I'm looking fAny interest in an STFM with a Gotek and Ultrasatan? :)
Even with acceleration disabled, you may still well be using the accelerator card for processing so the problems will persist. One of
the reasons I'd be inclined to remove it for now.
Most of the goodies you've got a really more targeted at a business end
of things. Appleworks, ProTerm, I forget what else now off hand will
all run accelerated happily, and don't use any video modes.
Once you start looking at games you'll run into more issues. It kind of becomes choose the best selection of cards for your purpose.
My ears always perk for any retro machines - I'm heavy right now, just having jumped into Apple... BUT, I'll ask what it took you to get to
that point with yer STFM?
One thing that was super tricky to find was an appropriate Atari
monitor. I found two and now have a spare, in case you end up needing
one some day. It's a fun computer!
Alas sorry I must withdraw my previous offer as while writing this
out I have decided to rethink dumping it in favor of finishing the
030 mod :P Maybe once that's done I'll feel more inclined to part
with it.
My ears always perk for any retro machines - I'm heavy right now, jus having jumped into Apple... BUT, I'll ask what it took you to get to that point with yer STFM?
I'm the same, I go through phases lol. In fact I'm reconsidering
offering this up as talking about it has made me interested to play with it again :P
Alas sorry I must withdraw my previous offer as while writing this out I have decided to rethink dumping it in favor of finishing the 030 mod :P Maybe once that's done I'll feel more inclined to part with it.
My ears always perk for any retro machines - I'm heavy right
now, jus having jumped into Apple... BUT, I'll ask what it
took you to get to that point with yer STFM?
I'm the same, I go through phases lol. In fact I'm reconsidering
offering this up as talking about it has made me interested to
play with it again :P
Exactly - aside from necessity or some extreme issue in life, I don't
think I'll sell any of my retro machines... too many stories of ppl
wishing they hadn't.
I like to do 'stupid' stuff, like I write down common commands and
keep a set of software backup up - with instructions on how to use it.
Ever walked away from a retro and come back a year later and
completely (or mostly) forget how to operate it? I have...
Another thing I do, but can be expensive... I have two super large
Pelican cases; I removed the foam from one, and got a new set - it
contains the entirety of my C=128 collection, with aforementioned documentation/software. Its a case containing an entire C= collection. Awesome.
Alas sorry I must withdraw my previous offer as while writing
this out I have decided to rethink dumping it in favor of
finishing the 030 mod :P Maybe once that's done I'll feel more
inclined to part with it.
LOL - I wasn't even 'serious', just wondered what you got into it
for... in my C=128, I'm prolly all in for $750 - but, I bought it
fully refurbished and complete... and added a few aftermarket
solutions for it; SD2IEC, WiFi Modem, JiffyDOS ROMs, Fastloader...
telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-
I have a WiFi modem; I like it b/c it can be used on many different pla
of retro computers - MS-DOS, Apple IIe, even C=64 w/ an adapter... its
the cheapest ways to connect many retro machines.
Check Contiki, for both Apple and Commodore retro's - its a really nice
of network utilities.
why don't you start a C= / Apple BBS on real hw? :) for example
128 fOr beeRS :)
why don't you start a C= / Apple BBS on real hw? :)
for example 128 fOr beeRS :)
I've actually thought of this - and/or starting a BBS that can at least
be seen and used by all of the retro platforms.
I've actually thought of this - and/or starting a BBS that can atleast
be seen and used by all of the retro platforms.
Exactly what I've been shooting for with mine :)
I wonder if non-Apples can do ProTerm Special Emulation...
I wonder if non-Apples can do ProTerm Special Emulation...
I spun by yer bbS - it l00ked great, but I idled too long... I'll
come back by sir. :P
Yeah, I'll be honest, the 400 isn't one of the machines I'm
looking for
Any interest in an STFM with a Gotek and Ultrasatan? :)
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