Re: Some II+ Questions. (ProDOS etc.)

[Cliff Allo <cliffallo@qwest.net>]

Because the 65C02 may have a different resistance or voltage
requirement from the stock 6502, you risk burning your ROMs if you
simply swap the CPUs. At least that's how I killed my ][+.

On 5 Jun 2001 19:17:19 -0700, waynes@intergate.ca (Wayne Stewart)
wrote:

>Linards Ticmanis wrote 
>
>> I found out that the last version of ProDOS whose OS core runs on my
>> newly-acquired II+ clone is ProDOS V1.9, which I got from the Apple
>> FTP site and via a convoluted mess of manipulation and transfer Progs
>> and some emulators actually managed to get on the "Apple". However its
>> Utilities don't run. So what is the last version of the ProDOS
>> standard utilities that work with a II+?
>
>I've never used those utilities so I can't say about that but as a side note 
>if you put a 65C02 in the II+ clone you can run 2.0.3 provided you have 64k.
>> 
>> One other thing, is it possible to put a IIe board into the II+ case?
>> This clone is a total rip-off,  with an orignal case sans Logo, and
>> with the board layout copied 1:1, built by some very small German
>> company and originally sold on the grey market it seems. I like the
>> old case better than the IIe's, that's why I ask.
>
>You can likely find a way to fit the IIe board but it won't work with
>a II+ style keyboard. Unless of course you feel like completely rewiring 
>it and even then you wouldn't have some of the keys introduced on the IIe.
>Of course it'd be possible to fit a IIe keyboard into a II+ style case
>but extremely hard to do a good job of it since you'd have to carve a lot 
>of plastic.
>
>	Wayne