APPLE CRAPPLE

Adventures in Retro Computing, Hacking, and Other Madness

Monday, November 7, 2016

RetroChallenge Epilogue and Apparent Success

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After Review of my plan and schematics, I noticed a small error in the Eagle schematic I posted earlier. Pin 11 of the socket must be con...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Final Push and Failure

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I ran jumpers wires on the back of the Apple II+ logic board to route the various signals I needed (PHI_0, AX, A14&A15) to the J1 socket...
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Saturday, October 29, 2016

Apple II+ 64K RAM Refresh and Addressing

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I managed to add my modifications back to the Apple II logic board to get the 4164 RAM enabled. It seems to be working! However, I want to a...
Friday, October 28, 2016

Troubleshooting Frustrations

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I spent a number of hours last night and tonight trying to figure out why my modified Apple II+ was not beeping, and instead showing a scree...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Apple II+ RAM Replacement - Power

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Replacing the RAM in my Apple II+ has become a bit of a project in and of itself. Sure I could just buy some 4116 (16K bit) DRAM , but that...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

Apple II+ Logic Board Repairs

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Here are the two Apple II+ logic boards that I have for repair. They were mostly stripped of integrated circuit chips, and even have some po...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

Apple IIb Model

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Added power supply and logic board texture. Color change to be Apple II+ olive-beige rather than Lisa tan-beige.
Saturday, October 15, 2016

Feet and Boots!

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The parts donor Apple II+ I am trying to repair is really a mess. Even the rubber feet were harvested for another computer. Fortunately, I...

Apple ][b Refinements

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Coming along nicely. I used a more period appropriate keyboard layout, and I think it improved the over-all aesthetics. That's the kind...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Apple IIGS Repairs

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Here are the fruits of my labor for the past two weeks. I had already attempted to repair this Apple IIGS Upgrade board, after a battery exp...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Some Progress, Some Distraction

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I spent some time last week working on a Google Sketchup rendition of my hypothetical Apple IIb. The idea is to solve some of the problems ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

RetroChallenge 2016/10 Entry

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RetroChallenge 2016/ 10 snuck up on me due to the new start month. For my entry I would like to focus on the Apple II+. First, I want to t...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Apple IIe RAM diagnosis

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I have an old, un-enhanced Apple IIe that that would give me errors while trying to load disks, like: UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS or NO BUFFERS...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Apple II Development

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I am pretty amazed at the current rate of development of new Apple ][ conveniences and devices. It is worthwhile to look up from a project...
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Saturday, February 13, 2016

USR-WIFI232 and ADTPro Continued...

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I really wanted the standard ADTPro Ethernet connection to work properly so that I don't have to start the ADTPro Server from the comman...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

USR-WIFI232 and ADTPro

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Based on my testing, the USR-WIFI232 appears to work fairly well with ADTPro giving yet another option for disk transfers. However, you hav...
Monday, February 1, 2016

Final RC2016/01 Thoughts

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After some testing, I figured out that the reason I have to run everything at 300 baud has more to do with the screen redraw and processing ...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Truly Wireless Now

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In a quest to make my Apple //e truly wireless, I did some soldering this morning to create a cable to go directly from the Apple Super Seri...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

Apple //e Webserver Running!

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I have my Apple //e BASIC web server running!... sort of. Try it out. Be gentle and patient, it's only 300 BAUD!: http://162.232.186.125...

Minor DOS Disaster

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Last night, I was putting the final touches on my Applesoft BASIC HTTP parser to act as a webserver when I had a pretty big set-back. I was ...
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