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Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #14

Can the expansion cards access all of the normal system memory? If so, you could certainly access the video ram directly. Otherwise, why not just use an sram chip with another avr …
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Thu, 29 Apr 2010 - 20:09

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #13

if you want to spider-web your apple with 30 gauge jumpers maybe you could only do low rez then yes, but your still sampling the video data and then post processing it to output, s…
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Thu, 29 Apr 2010 - 04:52

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #12

Making an add-in card to replace the onboard video out and having it read the video portion of the ram makes more sense than trying to capture the output frame by frame. Perhaps it…
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Thu, 29 Apr 2010 - 04:03

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #9

oh I have been thinking about it sorta half hart, I am using a tv card in my computer, and it makes 80 col text impossible to read, growing up with the apple monitor II green scree…
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Wed, 28 Apr 2010 - 21:19

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #8

Is it possible to easily modify or add circuitry to make some kind of digital sync signal for the monitor? Any chance an IC analog to digital (ADC) converter might suffice?
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Wed, 28 Apr 2010 - 20:26

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #7

There are a couple of things that can make a TV mess up on an Apple II or II Plus. First, composite NTSC video is 525i, 30 frames of 525 lines each second interlaced in 2 fields of…
68kMLA Hardware by H3NRY Wed, 28 Apr 2010 - 05:54

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #6

Number 018 http://www.faqs.org/faqs/apple2/faq/part16/ From: Michael Pender and Rubywand 018- What is the usual way to connect an Apple II to a display? For a IIgs, you con…
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Mon, 26 Apr 2010 - 21:29

WGS 9150, are they rare? — #16

TRAQ: How are the conditions in your attic? Humidity and heat/cool cycles are hell on plastics. Click to expand... Not great. It rarely gets below 40F around here, but in the …
68kMLA Hardware by trag Mon, 26 Apr 2010 - 17:22

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #5

I remember someone told me that modern comb filters on the last generation or two of tube TV's was to blame for the useless image that is generated by older computer systems that o…
68kMLA Hardware by Paralel Mon, 26 Apr 2010 - 01:52

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #4

Nice score, I got a ][gs back in june but haven't been able to use it (TVs make terrible composite monitors). The one time I did use it, the power supply was making noises. Clic…
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Sun, 25 Apr 2010 - 22:18

MacOS 9.1 vs Ubuntu 9.10 — #19

I was trying to place my mind into a glorious time "2 years" past too. I currently live in a town which may have four Macs in it, two of which belong to one person and none of whi…
68kMLA OS 9 by II2II Sun, 25 Apr 2010 - 21:37

MacOS 9.1 vs Ubuntu 9.10 — #18

Good point. I've trimmed down all my of computers and now have: My sawtooth My BeigeG3 MT My 5300cs My 8600 soon to be parted out However if this was 2 years ago and I still …
68kMLA OS 9 by Temetka Sun, 25 Apr 2010 - 20:44

MacOS 9.1 vs Ubuntu 9.10 — #17

If it was a G3 iMac, I would install NetBSD. But it isn't. If I didn't already have half a dozen 9.1 machines, I would install 9.1. But the hypothetical situation has me owning …
68kMLA OS 9 by II2II Sun, 25 Apr 2010 - 16:18

MacOS 9.1 vs Ubuntu 9.10 — #16

Personally I'd go with 9.1 - being able to run Ubuntu isn't really all that special when you can easily find a PC on the side of the road that'll run the x86 version of Ubuntu (whi…
68kMLA OS 9 by LCGuy Sun, 25 Apr 2010 - 10:31

PPC Mac Clones — #28

Gah! That laptop is super ugly. However the Skylab sounds like it truly was the Holy Grail. "As far as Mac Prototypes go, one of the most glorious I ever saw was the Radiu…
68kMLA Hardware by Temetka Sun, 25 Apr 2010 - 10:10

What kind of disks does my Disk ][ use? — #12

Yeah? That company seems to have an index.html site and an index.php site (the one I listed), it's a little confusing. If you ever try buying some disks from them, let me know how …
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Sat, 24 Apr 2010 - 14:39

Symbolics Macivory Quadra 650? — #6

They really are quite rare. But this auction was asking too much. 500$-1k$ would be too much for me, but for a complete setup a more reasonable price to ask. Consider that once the…
68kMLA Hardware by CJ_Miller Sat, 24 Apr 2010 - 09:44
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