Re: Truly rebooting an Apple IIGS

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
7LCdnZ5GKe5XtbnYnZ2dnUVZ_u-dnZ2d@comcast.com">news:7LCdnZ5GKe5XtbnYnZ2dnUVZ_u-dnZ2d@comcast.com...
> Bryan Parkoff wrote:
>> "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
>> mMKdnbfiDJDs-77YnZ2dnUVZ_tqdnZ2d@comcast.com">news:mMKdnbfiDJDs-77YnZ2dnUVZ_tqdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>
>>>mdj wrote:
>>>
>>>>Linards Ticmanis wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Lyrical Nanoha wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hold down the Command (Open Apple) key while pressing the same keys.
>>>>>
>>>>>Right, and the important thing here is that Open Apple is being held
>>>>>down while Reset is *released*. At least on the IIe, I don't own a 
>>>>>IIgs.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Each of the three machine designs (IIe, IIc, IIgs) that have this
>>>>feature all implement it slightly differently, and are sensitive to
>>>>different variations.
>>>>
>>>>The official, sactioned, 'three-finger salute' is to hold down both
>>>>control and open apple, then press and release reset. Once you see the
>>>>machine rebooting, you can release the modifier keys.
>>>
>>>The only time that a //e will look at the modifier key is *after* the
>>>reset ends, which is after either Ctrl or Reset is released.
>>>
>>>I would expect this to be true even with keyboard buffering, since a
>>>reset should empty the buffer, too.
>>
>>
>>     Maybe, joystick's first button is stuck being pressed down which it 
>> is linked to Open Apple.  Press and hold CTRL key while pressing RESET 
>> key without touching Open Apple before it is rebooting because joystick's 
>> first button is down.  Try to disconnect joystick and it should clear 
>> Open Apple - CTRL - RESET to be working fine.
>
> I don't think there was any problem with it not working--just with
> what was required.
>
> BTW, if a joystick button is stuck down, pressing the corresponding
> Open- or Closed-Apple key will short the +5v supply to ground!  Since
> this is also true if a joystick button and the corresponding Apple key
> are pressed at the same time, that's not a good thing to do.  ;-)

Michael,

    No resistor?  The Apple Computer, Inc admits to be human error.  If no 8 
resistors are installed in Apple //e's VIDEO ROM during blanking, it would 
screw the screen.  Same thing is to screw keyboard.

Bryan Parkoff