Apple IIe emulator card woes!

[Dennis Jenkins <dennis@usb.com>]

Argh!!!
	This relates to the Apple IIe card (w/ the 'Y' cable!)  for a Mac
LC-II.  I just purchased one off of ebay.  I plugged it in, installed
the software and it all worked.  I already had a 10M prodos partition on
my mac's HS and it recognized that too.  The colors on the RGB monitor
are so crisp, it was wonderful!
	Then like a dream it ended.  When I was done playing around with prodos
that night, I shutdown the Mac like normal.  The next night I booted it
up and tried to run the IIe card control program.  It reported "You must
have the IIe card installed to run this software".  But the card is
installed.  So I rebooted and tried again.  No luck.  I removed the card
and re-inserted it.  No luck.  I did this five more times.  Then I took
another Mac LC-II out of my junk closet and hooked up my HD, ram,
keyboard, etc... and IIe card to this other Mac LC-II.  Still no luck. 
I put everything back into the original Mac LC-II chassis.  Still no
luck.  I've removed and re-inserted the PDS card over 10 times.  I've
left the machine on for several minutes before trying to run the program
(thinking it needs to "warm up").  I've even cried on my wife's shoulder
that I just blew $25.  That didn't help either.

	When I was in high school, we have 5 Mac LC-II's, each with an IIe
card.  After a few months, three of the cards just stopped working,
exhibiting the same symptoms as I described above.  However, we never
opened the macs too "scooch" the cards.  One day, one of the IIe cards
spontaneously started working again.

	I don't fault the ebay seller.  The card was working when it arrived. 
I haven't contacted him yet.  I want to try to get it to work first.  Do
any of you have any ideas?  Maybe I can just hack the controller program
to not test for the card and just "assume" that the card is present. 
I've got resedit, just not enough time...


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