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@skate323k137 Joysticks without any capacitors inside work fine with the Joystick Shield. But if you're like me an only have one joystick that you use primarily with the IIe Card, that forces you to add capacitors so the stick reaches 255,255. But when you add the caps, then Joystick Shield...

This product: https://www.reactivemicro.com/product/joystick-shield-from-retroconnector/ The name is very strange. I have no idea why a Joystick needs a Star Trek type Shield around it. Speaking of which, there is no plastic case for it either. And it was only after I posted about that fact...

That would be the only solution, which would allow me to sever the 3.3nF cap, allowing the Mach III to work with Joystick Shield. But the method of severing that cap only makes practical sense if I drill a hole in my Mach III joystick. And while I've never considered myself a "purist" when it...

Bad news. :cry: My Mylar cap kit arrived. The good news is that instead of the 10nF ceramic cap I had installed before, I found that a 3.3nF Mylar was adequate to calibrate the Mach III joystick with my Apple IIe Card installed in my Color Classic Mystic (along with the 2nF Mylar I had...

I pondered drilling a hole in the joystick to do just that, but my hope is that the problem was merely my use of a ceramic disk capacitor which Joystick Shield doesn't like. Or maybe 10nF was too much for Joystick Shield whereas 2nF is not? Because like I said, the 2nF cap seems to be fine...

@OneGeekArmy Thank you again for your amazing work on Disk Jockey. I made some time today to test ProDOS images, created with Disk Jockey v.2.5, on a BlueSCSI with my Apple IIe Card installed in a Color Classic Mystic. Here are my findings... .hdv & .po & .dsk ProDOS images are recognized by...

After much testing with Henry at my side, I finally found a solution on my own. I had a suspicion all along this might be the root cause, and now I have confirmed it. CAPACITORS! While doing research for my two videos on the Apple IIe Card, I was advised by the Apple II experts to add...

@skate323k137 Henry replied back with a way to program the Joystick Shield using TeensyLoader. My firmware flashing was a success, but the new firmware didn't help. I'll PM you with a video I sent to Henry so you can see exactly what I did.

I received an email from Henry at ReactiveMicro. He said he sees the same issue as me! But he also said he is using Windows and said there is a "Game Controller Calibration" control panel he can use. I cannot use that on my Mac. I don't have a Windows machine. MacOS doesn't have anything...

Impossible to know because only Kay has one of those new overclockers right now. But I suspect VRAM speed may be a limiting factor at some point. I thought it has been the limiting factor in my own overclocking attempts beyond 50MHz, but now I have discovered a 68040 cooling issue. I am...

You are the first person who has told me you have a similar setup, and I truly look forward to the result of your test. Please note that you can download MECC Computer Inspector, which has the same joystick calibration program that I use here: ComputerInspector (MECC 1.0).dsk

I posted about this over at the Apple II Enthusiasts group on FaceBook, and I also sent Henry of ReactiveMicro an email, but thus far I've not been able to determine the cause of the problem I am having, which I described in detail in the following unlisted video on YouTube... PROBLEM QUICK...

Drake you truly gave Philippe a "leg up" in his repair! :-) @iPhil64 Great job! I've done chip repairs like that, and depending on the chip it's not too fun to carefully scrap away the black body of the chip to reveal more of the leg stub in order to solder something to it. In my case, I...

I answer that question in my new video here. :)

My Part II video on this topic turned out to be longer than I thought, but it's fully indexed so you can jump to the parts which interest you. Even so, it's highly edited such that all the boring stuff is left out and what remains is only the juicy meat. :-) This really is about how useful the...

Paul Hagstrom from the Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook group very kindly provided me with this PDF, which I uploaded to Archive.org for preservation and subsequently linked here on TinkerDifferent. It showcases the complete Apple product line being sold as of the summer of 1993. My main interest...

You mean these holes? The Before, After and Combined images below seem to indicate what I suspected might happen -- overshoot of the thermal paste across the glue, thereby compromising the glue in places. I've bought all the materials though, and in my case it is a square 040 with no...

Thank you for the details. @eric already very kindly made a BlueSCSI compatible version of Total Replay here: https://mega.nz/folder/8hA3AQCJ#pWUq92L70yDXlogy9lk5Dg/folder/gsokHTRC I was thinking about doing a video to show others how to use Disk Jockey to do that. Even so, Eric did not use...

@OneGeekArmy Please forgive my ignorance because I'm most likely overlooking something obvious, but I trying to figure out how to use Disk Jockey 2.5 to create a BlueSCSI compatible version of Total Reply 5, which is a 32MB ProDOS image. I started by setting the capacity to 32MB... Next, I...

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