Wow - almost at the end of another year. Well we finally got ROMXe out this year, and have a few things in the pipeline including ROMXc+ for the Apple IIc+. The main PCB is shown below - this is pretty much final now :
There is an MMU-Link flex PCB that connects to pin 20 of the MMU :
The...
ROMXe is now available for order from ReActiveMicro! That one took a while - partially because there are so many system options out there for the IIe and we wanted to ensure maximum compatibility. Our Beta test group helped a lot with that - thanks everyone!
There is a new ROMXc/e User Guide t...
We have reached a milstone with the release of V1.00 firmware! Well done Jeff, and a big thanks to all our Beta testers who have helped us to identify any problem areas and fine tune this release. V1.00 is looking great and ROMXe ships with V1.00 out of the box.
ROMXe will be available for pre-o...
I thought I'd share some images that were used in the ROMXe Installation Manual that has just been published.
The retail package :
The ROMXe hardware including the EF Adapter PCB for use in a dual ROM socket machine (CD and EF ROMs) - for single CF ROM machines you unplug the adapter :
ROMXe is in Beta test at the moment and a lot of good work has come out of it so far. One thing that became apparent was a bit of a shortfall with the fonts on the video ROM. It was found that many of them weren't great for text UI's on the //e due to missing characters or non-standard underscores.....