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Question for Audio Animator owners...

2009-11-29T19:20:30Z

Hi,
One thing i have noticed with my audio animator is that with certain
games if you cancel the playing of music that it will just sit there
and play the last tone until something else triggers music to be
played. I have seen this mainly in Sierra games such as KQ2, SQ2 and
Silpheed etc. I had just lived with it until i started to put my own

top protected Apple II title?

2009-11-29T16:06:03Z

I have some vague memory of somebody telling me that "Skyfox" is one
of those top protected titles. Is that so? Could you describe top dogs
in protection? 5.25" only, of course.
And to continue my quest, some more questions you can try answering:
- how many titles are left un-cracked
- of those un-cracked titles, are original diskettes still

Cassette Capacity

2009-11-29T04:57:03Z

I was just moving gigabytes of data around on terabyte sized drives,
and was remembering the good old days, when you could more or less
grasp how much stuff was on a disk. That led me to wonder how much
stuff was on the first storage device I ever used on an Apple II. Does
anyone recall about how much information could be stored on a cassette

Thanksgiving Updates to the 'What is the Apple IIGS?'

2009-11-27T00:34:04Z

Check them out everybody:
[link]

Apple II style joystick/paddles to USB

2009-11-26T12:46:06Z

Does such a device exist? I would love to use my original Apple II
joystick with Virtual II or other emulators.
Regards,
Adam
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"Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day.
But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude
of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer

Transwarp GS 7Mhz/8K upgrade

2009-11-25T04:41:04Z

I just picked up the ROM1 Pitz was selling on c.s.a.m (yay!) which is
actually the 3rd ROM 1 that I've picked up in the past few months.
Including my original ROM1, I now have 4! :)
The TWGS looks stock, 28MHz crystal, original 8K cache, and I've been
to the Reactive Micro site to scope out upgrades. The first one I'd

Games for Christmas, again!

2009-11-23T13:34:22Z

Hi Folks,
The guy's over at PACE have ported a few of their arcade game machines
to Carte Blanche. This is pretty much a functional copy of the
hardware main board to such games as space invaders, lunar lander,
pacman, galaxian, mooncresta etc but built inside CB's FPGA. The
keyboard and video is connected up and provided by the apple IIe so

replacement inkjet printer for Apple 2

2009-11-23T02:52:06Z

I'm trying to replace a printer on a relative's Apple 2e system. It
was an Apollo inkjet printer - a less expensive version of an HP
Deskjet 450(?).
All I need is a character mode printer that works with a parallel card
in slot 1 under Apple DOS. I really would prefer an injket to a dot
matrix or laser printer.

Off Topic - BBC Micro Books

2009-11-22T16:16:02Z

I'm looking for a lead on someone who might want a fairly large
number of BBC Micro books (15 or so). I saved these from a
thrift store shelf and still have them sitting around.
If someone wants them, I can ship them.
Thanks.

2009 meets 1978 - need cassette port testing program.

2009-11-22T04:08:38Z

I'm working on an platinum Apple //e (named "Doc", if anyone is
curious), trying to get ADTPro going on it so I can archive more
floppies.
I wasn't having with the audio bootstrap method, so I found a 30-year
old GE recorder, and paired it with a
10-year old audio cassette (new in packaging). It seems to record

I'll be at KansasFest 2010 - but you won't know me by sight :)

2009-11-22T05:00:07Z

To: Saint Isadore Patron Saint of the Internet
Re: I'll be at KansasFest 2010 - but you won't know me by sight :)
By: Saint Isadore Patron Saint of the Internet to comp.sys.apple2 on Thu Nov 19 2009 09:46 pm
> I finally decided to attend the entire event and to meet all of the
> SPECIAL A2 folks.

How is the IIgs beep generated?

2009-11-19T22:13:56Z

Some discussion on the Wikipedia page got me wondering: how is the Apple
IIgs beep generated? Some say it is an algorithmically drawn waveform, fed
to the DOC, while others suppose that it is generated by the Ensoniq.
Anyone have the full details?

WINE and CiderPress

2009-11-19T18:11:05Z

Hi, y'all!
When I start CiderPress using WINE and Ubuntu Linux I get the
following message:
fixme:commdlg:GetFileName95 Flags 0x00800000 not yet implemented
CiderPress seems to run OK so I'm wondering if I should worry
about it or if there's anything I can do about it.
Willi

RAMFast ROM's

2009-11-19T04:37:02Z

I have 2 Rev. D RAMFasts. Can someone please tell me the difference
between the later ROM revisions? What is the difference between 3.01F
and 3.01-EZ? My EZ appears to have a different main chip (Zilog) than my
other? Can someone shed some light on this?
Thanks!

Zip GSX - Extra Components

2009-11-18T10:19:58Z

Hi Guys,
I've been watching an auction on eBay for a 14MHz Zip GSX, and seeing
the photo's with the additional components (extra capacitors,
resistors and what looks like a transistor?) got me to wondering what
these additional components are for.
I modded my Zip GSX a couple of years ago to run at 12.5MHz, and am