A Digital Camera for the Apple II's from 1983? Yes, it was known as the MicronEye. Not the digital cameras we have available today, the MicronEye was still an impressive hardware and software bundle from 1983 for use with both the Apple II+ and Apple IIe. I'm sure many veteran Apple II users that read this might even have had, used or still have the MicronEye in their Apple II hardware collection. Offered for it's historical information value with premission this Apple II historical addition to the Internet should prove useful for most any Apple II hardware and software computer hobbist to visit and review. Perhaps some of you might even have an interest in developing a prototype card and updated software from the information provided. Thanks to an avid Apple II hobbist named Jim, who created the html documents and sent them on to me to find a good home for it all, the complete MicronEye manual, basic and assembly program listings, source code, example digitized graphics (in GIF and JPG) with full documentation are available with the MicronEye program disk archive. All nicely formated in html documents with links to each option, function and program listings, I expect many of you will appreciate its through contents. Check it all out with the detailed schematics, original digitized graphic examples and the complete links to all there is on the MicronEye digital camera system for the Apple II. A total of 2.2 MB's it is very complete in every respect. http://tarnover.dyndns.org/cabi/Graphics/A2.MicronEye/ http://members.xoom.com/cturley//A2.MicronEye/ I would suggest you access the tarnover.dyndns.org url for fastest access. The members.xoom.com url was provided by Dr. Tom as a backup site only for it. Other Apple II users, Apple II historical website host and hardware hobbist are also welcomed to provide the entire MicronEye folder and its contents if they wish without restrictions on their on Internet sites. Color High Resolution Graphics Lifted from a post on comp.sys.apple2 usenet newsgroup by jonrelay@napanet.net the information included below is not inclusive with the MicronEye information. But, might be of equal interest to some hacker trying to enhance the MicronEye software programs or develop their own prototype card to include color HR graphics support. Every 2 bytes in memory: 00 = Black 00 = Black 00 = Black 00 = Black 10 = Blue/Mag. 10 = Blue/Mag.10 = Blue/Mag. 10 = Blue/Mag. 01 = Or./Green 01 = Or./Green01 = Or./Green 01 = Or./Green 11 = White 11 = White 11 = White 11 = White | | | | +---+---+ +---+---+ +---+---+ +---+---+ | | | | | | | | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ |CG |C6 |C5 |C4 |C3 |C2 |C1 |C0 | |CG |C13|C12|C11|C10|C9 |C8 |C7 | |128|64 |32 |16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |128|64 |32 |16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | | | | | | | | | | | +-+-+ +---+---+ | +---+---+ +-+-+ 0 1 | | 0 1 | | = = | 00 = Black = = 00 = Black | M O | 10 = Blue/Magenta M O 10 = Blue/Magenta | a r | 01 = Orange/Green a r 01 = Orange/Green | g a | 11 = White g a 11 = White | e n | e n | n g | n g | t e | t e | a / | a / | / B | / B | G l | G l | r u | r u | e e | e e | e | e | n | n | +----------------------------+----------------------------+ | | 00 = Black 01 = Blue/Magenta 10 = Orange/Green 11 = White If color group bit from each byte is different, then 01 or 10 will result in brown, purple, cyan or pink. I can't figure out when each color appears; it's your burden to figure it out. Every 14 columns on screen: 00 = Black 00 = Black 00 = Black 00 = Black 01 = Blue/Mag. 01 = Blue/Mag. 01 = Blue/Mag. 01 = Blue/Mag. 10 = Or./Green 10 = Or./Green 10 = Or./Green 10 = Or./Green 11 = White 11 = White 11 = White 11 = White | | | | +---+---+ +---+---+ +---+---+ +---+---+ | | | | | | | | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ |CG |C0 |C1 |C2 |C3 |C4 |C5 |C6 | |CG |C7 |C8 |C9 |C10|C11|C12|C13| |128| 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 |16 |32 |64 | |128| 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 |16 |32 |64 | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | | | | | | | | | | | +---+---+ +-+-+ | +-+-+ +---+---+ 0 1 | | 0 1 | | = = 00 = Black | = = | 00 = Black M O 01 = Blue/Magenta | M O | 01 = Blue/Magenta a r 10 = Orange/Green | a r | 10 = Orange/Green g a 11 = White | g a | 11 = White e n | e n | n g | n g | t e | t e | a / | a / | / B | / B | G l | G l | r u | r u | e e | e e | e | e | n | n | +----+----+ | | 00 = Black 01 = Blue/Magenta 10 = Orange/Green 11 = White If color group bit from each byte is different, then 01 or 10 will result in brown, purple, cyan or pink. I can't figure out when each color appears; it's your burden to figure it out. That's All Folks ! MacProber