Using the iie emulator card

[thatsteve]

Hello. I'm thinking about picking one of these up and have a couple of options at cards, but without the adapter cable. We all know the cable is rare as hen's teeth, comparatively, but I'm inclined to get the card now and keep an eye out for the cable. In the meantime, is there any use for the card without the cable? Can I "acquire" Apple ii floppy images from the web and use these with the iie card? I vaguely recall reading somewhere of a guy who had set up some kind selfcontained system in a disk image that he used with the card (no cable) but I can't remember any details.

S

 

[spiceyokooko]

Oddly enough I was reading up about one of those the other day! This site is interesting and informative -

http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/appleii/appleiiecard.html

 

[Mk.558]

You can use the card without the cable, you just won't get a 5.25" or 3.5" disk aside from an internal SuperDrive, and joystick/paddles are outside your league.

Check back later today...

 

[thatsteve]

Oddly enough I was reading up about one of those the other day! This site is interesting and informative -

http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/appleii/appleiiecard.html

Awesome. Thanks for that!

You can use the card without the cable, you just won't get a 5.25" or 3.5" disk aside from an internal SuperDrive, and joystick/paddles are outside your league.

Yeah, I probably wouldn't be using it for games so the lack of a joystick wouldn't be too much of a bummer. What I'd like to use it for is reading ye olde Apple II diskmags!

 

[Charlieman]

If you don't have the cable, try mounting a 3.5" ProDos image in MacOS. There are a bazillion options (I exaggerate, probably three) to do that.

See also the cable options that I posted years ago: http://www.vintagemacworld.com/lc_card_faq.html You can make your own cable or you can assemble a community to do it.

 

[Mk.558]

I have the port drawings in AppleWorks. I was going to originally post it yesterday but I confused the male/female nuts on the wrong ports. I also was going to upload a .jpg of the ports I reverse-drew but somehow someone (PhotoBucket or .jpg compression) decided that ~10 colors alone wasn't hardcore or "technical" enough, so it polluted the colors. But after two hours of fixing it's okay, so if anybody wants the .cwk versions I can upload them here.

Tested with a personally owned // splitter cable. Ironically, it was on my FS thread for $5 and nobody snagged it. Hello, eBay?

It really shouldn't be too hard to make one. DigiKey had a DB26 male port last time I checked, just wire one of those and and secure it down to a prefabbed bare board type thing, and and take a DE9 cable of any sort along with a DB19 cable, cut it with something suitable, expose the wires, and go to town. I could probably make one in about a day or two, put it in a nice little plastic box or something.

 

[thatsteve]

Thanks for that guys. Building a cable is probably outside of my skill-set, not to mention patience threshold... anything fiddly and twiddly with wires drives me potty! But have archived that info for future reference.

Now, if someone can get a deal on the connectors and can churn the cables out, there's money to be had!

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Also, just because the pedantic geek in me is annoyed - it's not an emulator card. It is an "Apple IIe Card". It is exactly what the name says. It is essentially a complete Apple IIe on a card.

 

[Charlieman]

Cough, Apple IIe Workstation Card.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

*cough*

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA46886?viewlocale=en_US

Apple IIe Card: Macintosh CompatibilityThe Apple IIe card is only compatible with computers that have the LC style processor direct slot (PDS) and do not require 32-bit addressing. ...

 

[Charlieman]

Brain failure on my part.

My own photo identifies it as Apple IIe Card (For the Macintosh LC)

http://www.vintagemacworld.com/lc_card/photos/box1a.jpg

The Apple II Workstation Card was the LocalTalk board for the II.

 

[thatsteve]

Isn't it more accurate to call it a hardware emulator? Seeing as its not strictly a iie on a card?

I hold my hands up to the mealy mouthed thread title though!

S

 

[Mk.558]

Updated to 1.1 below.

Removed the "(s)" from "Superdrive(s)" because no Mac compatible with the //e card can have more than one internal Superdrive (nor do they have floppy ports, from my research). Changed an error referencing "DB15" to "DB19".

 

[Strimkind]

no Mac compatible with the //e card can have more than one internal Superdrive

Not true, the original LC has 2 internal floppy ports and the SCSI HD connector. Technically you could have two superdrives and an internal HD plus the IIe card with the floppy drives connected to it.

 

[Mk.558]

I never owned an LC so I couldn't say for sure...

But how would you fit two floppy drives inside an LC?

Shall I revert to the (s)?

 

[markyb86]

But how would you fit two floppy drives inside an LC?

only by not having the hdd

 

[luckybob]

I don't want to de-rail the thread, but I was wondering, if there were IIe cards for machines OTHER than the lc-pds style? More specifically, I was hoping there was a "standard" nubus version. I'm working on "pimping out" an 840av and I would very much like to fill one of its slots with one of these cards.

 

[beachycove]

The LCs were heavily marketed to schools, which had amassed loads of Apple II educational software. Hence the

Lcpds card in question.

Anything with a Nubus slot was effectively a professional machine. Hence no IIe nubus cards were made. The Nubus equivalent was a DOS card, a full 2/3/486 machine in a Mac.

 

[Bunsen]

IIe cards for machines OTHER than the lc-pds style?

Nope. Exactly one model of IIe card was ever made.