[comp.sys.apple2] II+ VBL hack

mdavis@pro-sol.cts.com (Morgan Davis) (10/28/90)

Thank you, Henry Throop, for the information you sent me about the II+ VBL
wire modification (your message is attached for others to read).  I'm posting
this to the net in hopes that someone has Lancaster's book and can look up
this simple modification.  I'd appreciate a quick description of it.  If the
reply is sent to this group, please Cc my electronic mail address, too.  Thank
you.

--Morgan Davis

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Message-Id: <9010280147.AA17675@trout.nosc.mil>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 90 20:42:06 cst
From: "Throop,Henry B" <THROOP%GRIN1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Morgan,

The single wire ][+ vbl mod is described in Don Lancaster's _Enhancing Your
Apple II_ volume 1.  Unfortunately, I don't happen to have that book here
with me at college.  (I left very few books at home, and so far this semester
I've needed virtually all of them :)  You may be able to find that somewhere
or find where the vbl signal is on the motherboard if you have SAMS
Photofacts or something like that.  (This probably won't help much, but I
believe the pin was in the same (right-hand) column that the game I/O socket
is, about 2-3 chips down, and on the right-hand side of the IC.  Sorry I
can't be more specific, but you may be able to find it if you have
oscilloscope you can use.)

Sorry I can't be of much help, but hope that sets you in the right direction.

--
Henry Throop
THROOP@GRIN1.BITNET
throoph@jacobs.cs.orst.edu
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