Opry99er Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I have many excellent experience from my childhood with the IIe. My school had a room full of them for one. I had a TI-99/4A in my home growing up, but I had a friend named Eddie whose family had a IIe and a monochrome monitor. He had all kinds of great games and his parents used the computer for making banners and Sunday School literature on Dot Matrix paper. He always loved my TI for graphics and sound stuff, and I always loved his Apple for Oregon Trail and Bard's Tale. We were just little kids, so we didn't do well on Bard's Tale--but the world was very encompassing! Anyway, I have remained a passionate TI enthusiast, and I lost touch with Eddie over a decade ago. Fast Forward to today. I have recently acquired an Apple IIe in a trade. It is shipping to me this week and I am very excited to fire it up. It has a green monochrome monitor and a DuoDisk. It does not have a cable for the DuoDisk, however, so I am relegated to Applesoft until I get one. I also will be in need of a Serial interface card so I can get programs over to it. Also looking for a copy of ADTPro (I think is what it is called) to allow me to transfer. I recently bought 100 NOS 5.25 floppies on eBay, so I will not have a shortage of media. Does anyone have a DuoDisk cable or serial card they wouldn't mind parting with for a reasonable fee? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodnose Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 You're going to want a drive cable sooner rather later. Bootstrapping from ADTPro is cool, but you have to keep doing it with each image.I really like IEC for their Apple II products -- http://www.iec-usa.com/cgi-bin/iec/L1569 In the meantime, playing with audio transfers with ADTPro is a pretty cool exercise. Then you'll be cooking when you get your serial card. Super Serial cards are very common on eBay -- just make sure you get one with the cable that you mount to the backplate. A lot of offerings are missing the cable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Cade Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 DuoDisk cable = http://www.iec-usa.com/cgi-bin/iec/L1569 Very reasonable price. Probably not too many floating around not used with the drives... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Congrats you got the premium Platinum //e. PM me if you're interested in getting some disks made. For sup'a serial cards try not to pay more than $20 bucks. They're always showing up on ebay. And the manual can be found on ftp asimov if you want to dig into it. Otherwise the instructions from ADTpro are more than enough to get going. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=%22Apple+II%22&_oac=1&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.X%22Apple+II%22+serial.TRS0&_nkw=%22Apple+II%22+serial&_sacat=0 There's even instructions how to bootstrap your rig if you have no ADTpro disk to start with. Once you finish bootstrapping, you can make your ADTpro disk, which you will then use to transfer disk images to floppies. It goes pretty fast at 30 seconds per disk. You only bootstrap one time - to get the ADTpro disk. http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/bootstrap.html Eventually you may want to get one of these: http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/ I also highly recommend getting a head-cleaner disk (or a homemade scythe-shaped wooden tool-Q-tip) to get in the drive and clean the heads. Even NOS disks shed their coating nowadays causing odd random errors. This happens more now than it did in the past. I also recommend getting Ciderpress and AppleWin emulator, along with a set of utility disks. And learn how to use the online repositories. These tools complement and add a lot to the classic Apple experience. http://a2ciderpress.com/ https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin/releases 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 21, 2017 Author Share Posted April 21, 2017 Very good info fellas... thank you! Yea, I need that DuoDisk cable asap... As far as the card goes, there's a couple on eBay now, but I won't have the extra scratch until next Friday. I'm sure one will be available at that time or shortly thereafter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 21, 2017 Author Share Posted April 21, 2017 (edited) Out of curiosity, what is the difference between the Platinum and the "premium Platinum" IIe? Or is that just a term of endearment? Edited April 21, 2017 by Opry99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 Term of endearment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimakis Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 You aren't limited to AppleSoft. You can load machine language programs of audio cable. Check this website: http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 Limited to AppleSoft? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 21, 2017 Author Share Posted April 21, 2017 Thanks again for the Intel. I am eager to get started. My first goal will be getting my Apple to talk to my TI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimakis Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 Thanks again for the Intel. I am eager to get started. My first goal will be getting my Apple to talk to my TI. Well that will be easy, just get a serial cable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 21, 2017 Author Share Posted April 21, 2017 True... and I have a metric F Ton of serial cables here already. The key will be to get a capable terminal program for the Apple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 True... and I have a metric F Ton of serial cables here already. The key will be to get a capable terminal program for the Apple. A lot of people like ProTerm. I like ASCII Express. Search the ASIMOV Site Index to locate the Documentation. MarkO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 21, 2017 Author Share Posted April 21, 2017 Thank you, sir. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c0op3r Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Congrats on the Apple IIe Platinum - that is my Favorite version of the machine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimakis Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 For what it's worth, Modem.MGR is the best terminal package in my opinion. http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Utils/MMGR_PDOS_DSK.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 23, 2017 Author Share Posted April 23, 2017 Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 Well, the packages have been shipped. I will be buying the disk cable I need from that place in Denver... strangely, my grandmother's house is less than 5 miles from that location. Anyway, on the serial card... Most I hsv4 seen are listed as "untested" which (in vintage computer lingo) typically means you're 60% of the time buying junk that doesn't work anymore. Are these cards pretty durable? Should I expect it to work, untested? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 I purchased several untested SSCs and had no issues - that is once I got the configuration set the way it needs to be. ADTpro website tells you how, and the original Apple manual explains what the switches, jumper block, and pinouts are. With vintage telecom things need to be set just so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimakis Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 I've bought two that were untested, and both worked fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 28, 2017 Author Share Posted April 28, 2017 Ordered the cable today. Waiting for a suitable serial card to pop up on eBay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 In the "completed" listings I'm seeing them move for $17 - $30 with cable. NIB CIB trades for $40 - $50. These are all very reasonable prices at this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potatohead Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 I bought one, worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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