RetroChallenge 2010 - Apple IIe Antics?
Proposal:
Going slightly less complicated this year. Armed with my Apple IIe Enhanced w/super serial card, and my sturdy Windows desktop (and anything else that I turn out to need...) I will get a serial connection going between the two (still need to make a cable adapter for my parallel cable to get the two attached). Once I get that working and maybe get some disk images copied to a spare 5 1/4" disk (My parents still have some around here from way back when they had PCs that used them. I'm hoping they have a few blanks around or i'll have to purchase some) I will then move on to getting the Apple II attached to the internet using my arduino w/ethernet shield. To accomplish that I will need to program the arduino suitably and create some kind of interface for the serial card, written in applesoft basic or/and assembly (if I can find a assembler and muster the energy to learn something strange and new) to communicate with the arduino. After all I have to tell what I wish to get (it will also need to know how to transmit that data). I shall be very thankful by the end of this, I expect, for the efforts of some person I do not know of who put pdf'd versions of the Apple II manuals on Scribd.com and someone else who pdf'd the manual for the super serial card (can't recall off the top of my head where I found it, macgui.com perhaps?). Any advice on this project would be appreciated, it will be an arduous task I am sure.
Machine: Apple IIe
OS: None
Hard Drive: None
Memory: 128k (64k built-in; 64k on 80col card)
Network: None
Extended Specs: Click Picture
Status:
In Progress - Arduino test software written and minimally debugged, awaiting workable connection to Apple IIe. Level shifter constructed, but not helping. Ostensibly it works, but either the Arduino actually has a shifter built-in (hence working, but wrong characters) or I just lack information. Using MODEM.MGR over writing software as it already implements the necessary features. At this point, I am somewhat desperate for something else to try. (June 16th 10:45PM)