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Re: Enhancing the Unenhanced!



Martin Doherty wrote:
Alistair Ross wrote:

Anyway, is it possible to remove ROMS from the Platinum and place them in a //e to make it enhanced? If so, which ones (ie what will be printed on the ICs?).


I think you're out of luck there. The Beige //e has two ROM chips, CD rom and EF rom. The Platinum //e has a single chip called CF rom. They obviously lowered the component count between the two models.

I have JPEGs of the motherboards for //e Enhanced, //e Platinum, IIgs ROM01 and IIgs ROM03 (I think courtesy of Wayne Stewart?). It's fun to overlay the windows and do a blink comparison like the astronomers do.

The Apple //e Enhancement Kits show up on Ebay from time to time. Not only you get the new ROMS (CD and EF), you also get a 65C02 and an updated character generator ROM.

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