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Hard Disk Images

Hi, Time ago I had a hard disk image with prodos and a lot of softwar, productivity and development (logo, pascal, assemblers) in a 32mb file. I used to load it using an SDCard in my IIc, but I'm unable to find the card.

I tried to find it but I haven´t be able to find it. Now (I'm a bit old) now I am at that point of thinking that everything has been a dream.... Can someone point me to the right direction?

3 Comments
2025/02/02
08:28 UTC

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Getting a IIe up and running

Hey! Not sure if this is the right sub for this but figured it was worth a shot. I picked up an old IIe recently and just tried firing it up and got this message. (The monitor I had handy did t work so yes this is thru a projector on the wall)

TBH I haven’t used a IIe since I was in middle school and don’t remember a whole heck of a lot except for playing Swashbuckler and Montezuma’s Revenge.

I also have a duo disk connected that at the very least, powers on.

Any tips on where to go from here to be able to possibly use this for shits and giggles?

3 Comments
2025/02/02
19:15 UTC

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ADTPro and Uthernet II - Notes

This is mostly an informational post in the case that anyone runs into this same issue.

Got an Uthernet II card a few days ago for my //e and wanted to take it for a test drive. I figured doing a transfer with ADTPro would be a good first test (I've done Serial transfers with ADTPro in the past with much success).

I was having troubles and wasn't sure why it wasn't working (kept getting host timeouts) until I looked at the client on the PC side and realized it was listening on my wifi connection and not on my ethernet dongle (I don't have the apple on the home wifi... yet). Once I turned off the wifi on my laptop and restarted ADT Pro on the laptop, it started listening on the correct connection and the transfer worked just fine.

2 Comments
2025/01/31
16:06 UTC

76

Choplifter - Apple ][ (1982)

22 Comments
2025/01/30
23:39 UTC

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Unable to connect to Applesauce!

I'm trying to use latest Applesauce on OSXSequoia and it seems to be unable to connect to the drive. The applesauce device appears in the USB list, the Link led is green but when I try t run "Check Drive" it complains it cannot connect to Applesauce. Any idea on how to debug or what could I test to find the problem?

1 Comment
2025/01/30
14:10 UTC

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Force 7 game question

Force 7 was a game I’ve always liked back in the day—one of the few games with in-game background music!

However, I’ve never figured out how to switch between the 7 crew members. I only found instructions for the C64, which say to press F1, but that key doesn’t exist on the Apple II. I’ve tried pressing every key on my keyboard to no avail, so I’m thinking it might be a key combo. Anyone know?

2 Comments
2025/01/28
18:14 UTC

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Cards, Ports, and Firmware

As I was putzing around with my //e the other day, I realized something that I guess I'd never really thought about before: my Super Serial Card is in slot 2, yet I was always able to PR#1 to print to my Imagewriter. Same with the the RGB card in the "aux" slot, PR#3 turned on 80 Column mode. I know (or at least I think) that the PR command is "direct output to slot #"... what kind of sorcery was going on to make these things work with the seeming mismatch of slot numbers? My slots 1 and 3 are currently empty - if I put something in either of those slots would it have conflicted somehow?

16 Comments
2025/01/27
15:23 UTC

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saving games on web browser version of apple2ts?

How to load save game states on the web version of apple2ts?
https://apple2ts.com/

I am trying to use this emulator with a Samsung tablet, in case it matters.

There is a disk icon for save state, and when I click it, it saves a text file to my tablet. But I can't figure out how to load the game state from that text file once it's saved - there is a folder icon which says "restore state" but I haven't been able to get the state to restore by loading the save state file from here, or from trying to load it directly in one of the virtual drives.

4 Comments
2025/01/26
20:06 UTC

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latest versions of applewin not working on windows 10 system?

I'm trying to figure out why none of the more recent versions of applewin will work on my windows 10 system. The most recent version I can get to work properly is 1.20. As for the newer versions, they are simply non functional as I can't load disk images. If I click on the drive icons, nothing happens; if I drag and drop an image into the window, nothing happens. Why would this be happening? Is there a fix? Thanks.

6 Comments
2025/01/26
20:00 UTC

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applesauce flux image to dsk file

this seems like it should be an easy thing to google/ddg for but havent found out info..

so is it possible to convert an applesauce flux png image to a dsk file?

thanks

6 Comments
2025/01/26
18:31 UTC

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.wav to .do converting Ciderpress

I've converted this .wav file in Ciderpress, when i'm trying to load this file in Applewin emulator is hanging for too long time, i know it takes some time, but it seems it will never be loaded

24 Comments
2025/01/26
12:30 UTC

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Other HDV compilations of Apple II games available?

I'm curious if there are other HDV (hard drive images for emulators) besides the ones I know. I know of Total Replay I and II that put together many classic Apple ][ disk based games with a custom menu, and Pitch Dark (Infocom text adventures) and Wizard Replay (all the Wizardry games that were released for the Apple II). A well done compilation makes running the games easier and generally avoids any disk swapping needed for multi-disk games.

17 Comments
2025/01/25
17:55 UTC

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Old canadian apple game

There was a game when i grew up in canada. It was similar to carmen sandiego, except you only traversed around canada, and the criminals were all former prime ministers. People wouldn't happen to remember this game, would they?

4 Comments
2025/01/25
02:02 UTC

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ReactiveMicro Gone?

Website isn't working and I havent recieved an order from about a month ago. Anyone know anything?

14 Comments
2025/01/23
21:50 UTC

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//e (non-enhanced) platinum keyboard repeating some letters

TL;DR - some keys (C E O S H F I U M P) emit from one to three characters on each press. Other keys (top row, punctuation, keypad) are rock solid.

Long-winded:

I have a school rescue //e (platinum, non-enhanced) that had been sitting in an attic for 10 years that I have up and running now (needed to clean the mobo and the keycaps were nasty). I didn't do much with the keyboard outside of pulling the keycaps (and washing them), and taking some compressed air to the denuded keyboard to get student yuck out of it.

Some characters (specifically the list above) when I type, end up emitting one to three of that character. So things like "LIST" sometimes come out "LIISST" or "LISSST" or "LIIIST" and so on. So I'm doing a lot of backspace editing. I wrote a little applesoft program to let me type a key a number of times in a row, and it tells me how many characters it actually saw - that's how I got that list.

I can't see any real pattern to that set of characters (outside of them being popular letters, though A and R don't have the problem) - so I'm guessing it's the keyswitches? Not being a solderer (I don't own an iron), is there anything I can check before I start own that route?

Thanks!

5 Comments
2025/01/20
23:15 UTC

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Keyboard outputting random characters

After digging our old Apple IIe out of storage and sniffing the fumes from the RIFA cap, I just got back my completely recapped power supply back and everything is running great now.... well, except the keys I press on the keyboard aren't always what appears on the screen. If feels like if I type to fast, it just starts displaying random characters. If I type really........ really....... slowly, like 1 character every 5 seconds, my chance of what I press showing up is much greater, but still not guaranteed. Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? I blew out the decades worth of dust from the keyboard but that didn't seem to have any effect.

4 Comments
2025/01/19
07:44 UTC

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I cloned VisiCalc

5 Comments
2025/01/19
07:42 UTC

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Apple 2 emulator for the ESP32 microcontroller.

Hello folks!

I've been working on an Apple 2 (plus) emulator project in C++ for the ESP32 microcontroller for a few weeks now, and have a base "translator" already working, executing around a million instructions per second without any apparent issues, but as I'm starting to focus on display, I'm having a few technical questions WRT memory mapping and I/O, and more specifically how practically the peripheral components in the Apple 2 work. I can understand 6502 assembly fine, but without knowing what I/Os do, I'm a bit stuck.

If anyone is interested and able to help (practical electrical knowledge), let me know in DM. If you're curious, my github repo is here: https://github.com/peergum/emulesp32 (note the emulator starts with apple2, but I plan to add the ability to cover other processors too, main purpose being to emulate any retro computer on an ESP32).

9 Comments
2025/01/18
17:04 UTC

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Binary Code Question

I’ve been playing around with the Virtual ][ emulator testing programs I find online and seeing how they run. At the moment, I’ve been able to input AppleSoft basic programs, run and save them to disk just fine. However, some programs seem to be created in binary, eg:

1000- C9 10 A0 35 70 F0 35 AB

1008- F0 76 AC F0 7A AB A0 06

1010- 17 F0 06 AB F0 17 AB A0

(First 3 lines as an example)

How would I Copy this over to an Apple II and run it. I see in theory once it’s on the Apple II in a binary format, I can use commands such as BRUN and BSAVE but I’m having a hard time figuring out how to get it over to begin with as copy and pasting leads to syntax errors. Also I’m I supposed to include the line numbers like I would in AppleSoft or just disregard them.

I’m running an Apple IIe under the emulator if that matters.

12 Comments
2025/01/17
21:58 UTC

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Apple IIe Enhanced self diag *RAM ZP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 error

Hi All,

I received an old Apple IIe Enhanced with 128k. The 64k card is a Video 7 RGB 64k card. I was able to boot a few games, but typing PR#3 to test 80 columns resulted in a messed up display. A game I booted, Bandits, worked OK. I am not sure if this is the motherboard RAM or the card itself. Next step would be to remove the card and do the test, but I am not sure.

I think ZP stands for Zero Page, but I am not sure what part of the Apple II's memory that is.

Thanks.

10 Comments
2025/01/16
15:49 UTC

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Dangerous Dave FanArt

3 Comments
2025/01/16
13:16 UTC

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Help with a game

Not sure if I’m just not remembering this right, but I played a game with my sister when i was younger(mid 80s I think) and I’m trying to find it again. It was a horror game, it may have started with a ride in a carriage to a creepy house. All I remember is it had very scary musical cues when you entered certain rooms. I think it may have had a room that was pink or purple or red and the music that played when we got there was enough for me to run out of the room and not play it again. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

7 Comments
2025/01/15
20:56 UTC

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can I use D41464C-10 chips as replacement for D41464C or D41464C-12 chips?

https://preview.redd.it/e5mu8abefnce1.png?width=3000&format=png&auto=webp&s=eb21b7146bc87de6ea0132f699e91712d8a18377

I have these chips in my iie platinum, and after seeing multiple ebay listings for D41464C-10 chips, would those work as replacements?

19 Comments
2025/01/12
23:39 UTC

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What are you most proud of in your apple ii collection (hardware and software)? What are your "holy grails"?

I have the complete Microzine collection by Scholastic. It took me at least 10 years to find the last title.

I also have most of the other Apple II titles by Scholastic (ie Agent USA, Quations, Tales of Mystery, etc)

I would love to get all the Microzine Jr titles as well as the complete Scholastic collection, which may be impossible as I'm not sure all the titles exist in boxed form anymore

I'd also love to get Prince of Persia. The only avaiable title on Ebay is listed at $2000, which is silly. I'm shocked that such a wide release game is so rare in the wild, like why is Summer Games so much easier to find than Prince of Persia?

37 Comments
2025/01/09
20:53 UTC

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