Re: Apple IIGS motherboard in an Apple IIe case

["Polymorph" <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Mar 14, 11:50 am, "magnusfalkirk" <dean.pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 13, 7:23 pm, "Polymorph" <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 14, 11:16 am, "magnusfalkirk" <dean.pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Greetings,
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> > > I just bought an Apple IIGS motherboard through Ebay and I won't know
> > > until I get it whether it's a ROM 01 or ROM 03. My question is: how
> > > hard would it be to replace the IIe motherboard in my current Apple II
> > > with the IIGS motherboard? Also will the IIe power supply work with
> > > the IIGS motherboard or should I plan on getting a new power supply
> > > ASAP? I'm not overly worried about playing IIGS games, but there are a
> > > couple IIe games that work better from 3.5 that I want to be a ble to
> > > play, like Silvern Castle (which I can only run from an Apple IIGS
> > > emulator at the moment) and Destination Mars!
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> > > Thanks for any help in advance,
> > > Dean
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> > Dean,
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> > I performed this "operation" about 12 months ago and documented what I
> > did. My daughter loves it.
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> > Have a read here:http://home.kooee.com.au/mike_stephens/
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> > You might want to use more "professional" tools like a dremel for
> > cutting, but I simply used what was at hand.  :-)
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> > cheers,
> > -p
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> Polymorph,
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> Thanks for the info! Your site is just what I needed. I'll probably
> enlist the help of my neighbor to make the modifications to the case.
> Of course if the motherboard is a ROM 03 it might take more work but
> it should still work, it might just take a little more work to make it
> happen.
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> Thanks again,
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Dean,

If its a ROM 03 board then you will not have the keyboard solder
points and I don't know how you'd go about attaching the //e keyboard
in this case. If it is possible (I'm not even sure it is), it would be
fairly difficult. You could always plug an ADB keyboard into the usual
IIgs socket, but it would look a bit weird having the //e keyboard
(not functional) in addition to an ADB keyboard.

You really want a ROM 01 board for this upgrade. Fingers crossed you
get a ROM 01.  ;-)

cheers,
-p