MarkO

Your First Picture, that cable will only provide the Outside Shield... With no Center Conductor, it won't work at all... You need a Cable with plugs more like the Second Picture... MarkO

Is this the Link: http://a2ciderpress.com/ ?? MarkO

Children!!! Get Along.... MarkO

Learning Assembly Language is the way to get Full Control of your System... Top Porter is working on an AppleSoft Compiler that looks like it generates pretty fast code.. I am a long time Apple ][ user, ( since JAN-1982 ) and have just started getting into the Tandy Color Computer, which has the Motorola MC6809 ( or the Hitachi HD6309 ). MarkO

The Apple II Enthusiasts group has a lot of posts... I would follow the Apple ][ Game Programing group... Tom posts there too, and much less traffic... MarkO

I find Tom Porter, Impressive, because he has not learned how to Count in Hexadecimal, ( yet ), and is tackling developing a BASIC Compiler... With incredible results. Just Impressive.... MarkO

It's ALL Important... Preserve both the Application and the Protection..... Then Crack the Applications so that it can be placed on just about any sort of Media.... If you can only do One, Preserve Both, then as time permits, Crack the Application. MarkO

Thanks for the Report... I will keep this in Mind when Backing Up Older media... MarkO

I thought the Running Gags with the Weaving Jokes was Excellent..... MarkO

Keyboard Input Buffer is 255 Character, ( It's at Memory Locations 0x200-0x2FF ), So BASIC Lines can't be by longer than that.. And are probably shorter.. MarkO

Simon is only using the Built In 6 Bit DAC... From the Code Snippet he shared with me, it looks like the Sound Routine ISR is about 40 Bytes.. And is running at 58 Cycles per Note, with Three Voices.. ( and Possibly Better, since that was Last Weeks numbers... ) Edit: And it run on the Dragons too.... MarkO

It does appear that Rick it targeting a Run of 1000 Units... Run #3, which is the one that I got my Units from was around 600 Units.... MarkO

Yes, both the Mocking Board Disk and the Echo+ Disk ( The Echo+ has Two AY-3-8913s just like the Mocking Board does, but they are addressed differently ) have BASIC programs that BLOAD the Sound Envelops and then setup the AY chips to play the sounds... Contact Tom Porter on Facebook... He has been doing a lot of Sound stuff and Double LoRes Graphics.. I know that feeling.... Lack on Money... I got an Original Mocking Board a few years ago, but it still cost me a bit.... I had received an Echo + a few years before that.. There are Two or Three Clones available now... One from Korea, One from Japan, and One from Bulgaria, plus there is an AE Phasor Clone in development.. Edit: Oh... In the mean time, get AppleWin.. It has Mocking Board Support... MarkO

Sounds like the need for a Modern PC Utility that can Read a Disk Image, and Follow the Individual Files on them and do Compares and Checksums on them. besides the Whole Disk... MarkO

While the Demo is Running, he is only updating the Box in the Middle. IIRC, Simon now has it only updating the Pixels Plotted, saving lots of time for Audio Generation, which is Pretty Tight Code too... MarkO

I haven't made it to one either, but there is lots of Technical Talks going on... MarkO

The CFFAs need a Slot, so that leaves out the Apple //cs, but with all the Built In utilities and Floppy and Hard Drive Support, they are very hard to beat.... As long as CF Cards are available, there should be no problem with maintaining the Current CFFAs, but probably the "next version" should be Micro SD and USB... That would be cool... Apple ][ to SATA.... MarkO

"COPY CON: index.html" is ALL I need!!! MarkO

Having a Schematic would give you an idea of what the chip is used for... I have a Rev-D 4K CoCo 1, NTSC, I can look as see if it has a similar chip... MarkO

You merely have to "stuff" some registers with the sounds you want... There are programming examples and People that are working with it today.. MarkO

I am Totally the Opposite.. I have a "deep" Vintage Apple ][ interest, but recently have been getting into the Tandy Color Computer... I got a NIB, CoCo 3 about 5 years ago, with a Platinum //e, that came with Drives and Monitor and Original Software.... I kept the CoCo 3, because it has the Motorola 6809, and I wanted to learn more about it.. Since then I have added Two CoCo 2s, a 4K CoCo 1, two MPIs and a practically new FD-500 Disk Drive.. and a Dragon64 by Tano... The CoCoSDCs for the CoCos are just as incredible as the CFFA3000 for the Apples... MarkO

The "opportunists", that want to Cash In are filling eBay with all kinds of Ludicrous Prices... OTOH, checking with people on Facebook, and AppleFritter and UseNet and here, and there are Machines to be had for reasonable prices... Check with Garrett at http://www.bithistory.org/. He is always getting Donated Hardware and needing to locate Good Homes for them.... MarkO

I first used the Apple ][+ in High School, but when it came to a point that I could buy one, the ][e was available and I was able to acquire a slightly used ][e. If the Language Card was added to the ][ or ][+, you could have 64K of RAM.. This was mandatory to use Apple Pascal... The Apple ][+ I used in High School had the ROM Card with the Integer BASIC ROMs on them.. Lower Case could be added, but they didn't come that way from the Factory. I don't recall if the choice to ship with 128K came before the Factory Enhanced ROMs and the 65C02.. I do know that there are Non Factory Enhanced ][es with the Newer Dark with Black keyboards.. I have three or four of them.. The Form Factor of the Platinum is similar, but the added Keypad throws of the original esthetics... OTOH, the Keypad can be handy, and the Motherboard is further chip reduced, leading to lower power requirements and potentially better reliability.. I actually own One Platinum //e. I had moved on to the IBM PCs by the time the ][gs came out, but I have aquired a few in the last 5 years... They have Great backwards compatibility with the 128K //es and //cs, and a whole lot of nicer features... I had one of the original //cs, and it was a cool, portable Apple ][..... I am very sad I sold it, BITD, to fund my first IBM-AT clone... The CFFA3000 is a fantastic addition to any Apple ][ system with slots... Floppy Disk, Hard Disk, SSD... What more could you ask for?? MarkO

I am not seeing a Technical Manual in here for the CoCo 1 PAL... Are you a member of the TRS-80 CoCo Facebook Group or on the CoCo Mailing List??? MarkO

That is Highly Likely..... MarkO