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Thursday, September 28, 2017
Replacing the Top Button on a Kraft KC3 Joystick with a B3F-5000 Omron Push Button
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This describes how to fix a Kraft KC3 Joystick that has a broken top button switch. Parts you will need: B3F-5000 http://www.mouser.com...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Replacing Line Filter Capacitors on an Apple IIGS or an Apple //e Power Supply
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We need a few parts for this repair. The general consensus is to replace the original paper dielectric capacitors with the more modern pol...
Monday, February 20, 2017
Playing Ultima V with Passport MIDI Music on a Real MT-32
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I've been playing Ultima V in DOSBox for a while now and am almost through with the game. Just a few days ago, a friend told me that Bre...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Replacing SIMM Sockets On An 8MB MDIdeas OctoRam Card
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Some time ago, a friend gave me this 8MB RAM card for the Apple IIGS. There was nothing wrong with it, except that three to four of the li...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
How to fix an Apple 3.5" drive that won't eject
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I got two of these Apple 3.5" drives from eBay. One of them worked perfectly. The other one was able to read and write to the disk, but...
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