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All members are invited to blog on Applefritter. Weblogs should generally be of a technical nature and should be written in such a way as to still be readable and useful 50 years from now. Please do not embed outside media. Images and videos can be uploaded via the Media Browser. Files should either be attached to the blog post or uploaded to the file libraries.

When you post to your blog it will appear on this index and on your personal blog page. Once you've made a few posts, contact me about having a graphic added on the top of this page.

A2USB: Apple II USB & Mouse Interface Card Emulation

Submitted by MacFly on January 1, 2024 - 10:19am

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What does an Apple II VGA Card, a Z80-CPM SoftCard and an USB-Apple II Mouse Interface Card have in common? Well, almost everything. All three are the same card. Same hardware. Just differing software. The magic of software-defined hardware. It can emulate many things. It just depends on software.

I started a project to add USB support to the Apple II - extending the PICO-based Apple2 VGA cards. The cards are based on excellent work by Mark Aikens, David Kuder and others. The hardware is using the surprisingly powerful and flexible PICO microcontroller. The first and most obvious application of the A2USB project is a complete Apple II Mouse Interface Card emulation, supporting a USB mouse.

Tags: 
#hardware #usb #apple

A1 in Walnut case

Submitted by Zero dB on December 6, 2023 - 1:03am

My latest A1 build. Case is walnut.  

Thank you for all your help Uncle Bernie.  

Getting your Apple II VGA Card up and running: Ralle Palaveev version

Submitted by skate323k137 on November 20, 2023 - 6:25pm

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The Ralle Palaveev VGA card is an extension of the Apple II Vga project by Mark Aikens. A few versions of this project exist, but this post is focusing on the Ralle Palaveev version, which has a lot of capabilities (and the added complexity that goes along with them).

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