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I just noticed a typo with the infocom games list. SORCERERR.15 should be SORCERER.15. The Infocom CHD has the correct spelling, but I had to fix the games list in the 7z file. This is the fixed version. Apple 1.7z

Once again I made a mistake. ZorkII.48 had an incorrect data file (Infocom.dat) in the infocom chd. This new upload has the correct version. Apple 1.7z

I've also added all the known .z3 versions of Zork 1 in the updated chd. You can read more about these versions here.

They are :

ZORKI.20
ZORKI.23
ZORKI.25
ZORKI.26
ZORKI.28
ZORKI.30
ZORKI.75
ZORKI.76
ZORKI.88 is the last .z3 version. There was a 'Solid Gold Edition (.z5), but the infocom CFFA1 only supports z3.

Hopefully this is my last upload (cross fingers). If anyone notices a mistake please leave a message. Feel free to leave any message about my uploads.Good bad or whatever.

Thanks.

Off topic, THIS YouTube video shows a tutorial on how to install a Generic Bezel for MAME. How flattering because I made that plastic bezel. No that isn't me in the video.

Have you Apple II guys heard about the VidHD from the apple II wizard John Brooks?


It outputs 1080p video and has some interesting text mode abilities like HD text modes: 40x24, 80x24, 80x45, 120x67, 240x135.

A few tidbits from the discussion on google groups:









Google groups discussion about the VidHD:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.sys.apple2/QzlPKoV9nzg/U0318aB_AAAJ

Youtube videos:

Kansas Fest 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl50RZ8kfN0

Text Modes demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmiIFyvbMn0&t=27s

Yes, of course I have heard of it, I have two on order

Yes, I was at KansasFest where it was demonstrated. :-)

I should figure you guys know about the VidHd. Especially considering the text on the "Bitsy Bye" screen.

That's the coolest thing I've seen for a long time.

Reading up on the discussion around it, other Apple video boards were mentioned which got me searching on Apple II RGB cards.

I found some interesting pictures and video of a DigiCard IIe RGB board with a blue text screen that looked really interesting, where the inverse text color wasn't just inverse bits but different colors.

I'm guessing this is the Light Blue/DarkBlue/Orange/DarkBlue combination. It's a "Fingerprint Plus" screen.

This was a look I'd never seen before.








These pictures are from a cool webpage at

http://www.cvxmelody.net/AppleUsersGroupSydneyAppleIIDiskCollection.htm#IIECOLLECTION

Video at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8HMnRuc_t8

Manual at:

https://archive.org/details/DIGICARD64KExtended80ColumnRGBCardForAppleIIeInstructionManual

I recently heard about a Apple II video RGB card that I had never heard of before: The Keyzone Spectragram.

This is actually pretty cool in that it you can remap the apple hi-res colors into different colors.


from Vintage Micro Music: https://www.flickr.com/photos/88521483@N03/15316640816/



https://www.flickr.com/photos/88521483@N03/15287208695/




Apple2000 Vol 2 No 5 October 1987

I notice there has been an update to the Apple /// font uploading, thanks. I also noted the comment that its still not perfect..
I had a look and it seems the wrong address was mistakenly used for turning off char writing, it should be $C0DA, and not $C0DC. I had a quick try and it seems to work ok from what i can see when this is updated.

Hi Rob,

I saw your csa2 post and did that update. Nice catch, changing it to $C0DA does improve Atomic Defense (the in-game status bar font is now correct).

Thanks for updating it, the font loading does looks like its working well now.

One other thing I noticed with Atomic Defense is the speech is quite quick in emulation compared to the real thing. (sorry to keep banging on about this game.. :-) )

I did a quick bit of investigation with a logic analyser. When the Video display is on, the Apple3 downshifts to 1MHz for each scan line, and then upshifts back to 2MHz for the blanking period. I can see that this impacts the overall effective speed quite a bit. And can also see why they built the function in the console driver to be able to turn off the display when you wanted it to run faster for raw processing power. I did a quick hack to set the clock to 1.5Mhz, and then the speech sounds much more like on the real metal. When set like this though, Atomic defense does not seem to run well with the smooth scroll, so seems its needs this up/down clk speed emulated correctly when the display is on. I suppose the code is relying on 2Mhz clk to get as much done in the blanking time as possible.

One other observation is that the ram refresh also causes the downshift to occur, so the A3 never really gets the full 2Mhz speed :-(.

Some pics from my logic analyser if you are interested. CH1 is PH0 from the processor, CH2 is VBL, and CH3 is BL
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ny3it2dyevzl4ba/Apple3_clk.zip?dl=0