User`s manual

Part I: Installation.

These instructions will lead you through setting up the Raspberry Pi to connect with your Apple II.

This is a multi-step process; make sure you follow the instructions closely. It might help to read

through the steps before attempting it live. But be forewarned, this is a sophisticated product and will

require some amount of technical expertise with the Apple II and especially the Raspberry Pi running

Linux. You should have in your possession a Model A or Model B Raspberry Pi computer. The Apple II

Pi adapter card, labeled as such at the top, is the connection between the Raspberry Pi and the Apple II.

It provides power and communications channel between the two. There are two methods of attaching

the Raspberry Pi to the Apple II Pi adapter card: internal mounting and external mounting. The internal

mount is a neater installation but it is very restrictive: it only works in an Apple //e with added cooling

fan and access to the video/audio ports is limited. All others should use the external mounting.

Step 0: Requirements.

In addition to the Apple II Pi adapter card, you will need an Apple ][+ with 64K or newer Apple II, a

floppy disk drive, an A2PI floppy disk, a Raspberry Pi, a configured SD card, and a video cable

(composite or HDMI).

Step 1i: Internally mounted Pi parts identification.

The internally mounted Apple II Pi card uses the female header at the top where the Raspberry Pi's

GPIO header plugs in. The orientation is such that the USB ports stick out the front, the SD card sticks

out the back (over the top of the chips on the adapter card), and the HDMI port is at the bottom. Refer

to the following picture for clarification:

Note that the composite video port and the audio headphone jack are oriented upwards. Due to the