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 to see what others are doing every once in a while.
VGA adapters for the Apple IIc and IIGS seem to be hot right now.
The Nishida Radio Disk II adapters are gaining more and more features, including a nice looking web interface!
Big Mess O' Wires had added Apple II support to the Floppy Emu Disk Emulator.
It's impressive to have a microcontroller with more power than the Apple II strapped on the back of it. Although it does feel like cheating sometimes...
I merely managed to find a switch that perfectly fits the Apple II keyboard encoder for enabling lowercase once the character ROM is updated. It is labeled "ONLEDA MTS-202" and is a knock-off of some old high-quality switch, I'm sure. Good ebay search terms : Right DPDT toggle switch. Just take note of how the pins are oriented to make sure you get the right ones. I'm putting mine away for a rainy day.
A new style of Apple II prototyping card popped up on ebay too. Had to buy one.
I'm happy to see that people are doing this.
ReplyDeleteThere was an article in Creative Computing (or perhaps another Apple // magazine), that discussed the addition of switch S2, but I haven't been able to track down that - I thought it was the "Apple-Cart" column in creative computing, but it mentioned a specific manufacturer at the time.