color classic mystic

  1. JDW

    Mystic Died. Looking for an MC88916DW80 chip.

    Somehow I killed my Mystic merely by making some 4-wire resistance measurements in the vicinity of the XC88916DW55 chip on my LC575 motherboard. I know it's a problem on the motherboard, not the analog board. I believe the 88916DW chip is now bad because when I put my scope on it, the Q0 and...
  2. JDW

    Flippy-Floppy Video REVIEW

    In August 2022, @Kay K.M.Mods created what I consider an OUTSTANDING upgrade for the Color Classic MYSTIC called: FLIPPY FLOPPY. I'm a big-time FloppyEMU user. It always frustrated me to my core when I reflected on how my otherwise great MYSTIC doesn't have an external floppy drive port on...
  3. JDW

    Apple IIe Card, FloppyEMU & Mach III Joystick VIDEO (Part II)

    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...
  4. JDW

    Apple IIe Card in Color Classic MYSTIC [Part 1]

    Although I've been a Mac fan since 1984, I'm still new to the Apple II. But my recent purchase of an Apple IIe Card & Y-cable for my Macintosh Color Classic Mystic has been a fun learning experience. I made this video showing how to recap the card and to provide a general overview of the...