HELP!!! Apple IIe - doesn't work!

more(a)camlaw.rutgers.edu said, Hmmm... sounds like something in your system definitely doesn't like running at 4MHz but works fine at 1MHz. The ROM BASIC intrepreter begins at address $E000. There were various replacement ROMs you could get that would keep copy protected programs disk, whatever it is, doesn't recognize the Enhanced IIe ROM (or maybe even the IIe at all) and is thinking you're trying to fool it by switching ROMs on it. Short of figuring out a way to get a II+ ROM into the computer or patching the program to avoid the check, I don't think there's much hope for getting this particular disk to work. Sounds reasonable (though it's been long enough since I used a II+ system master I can't remember whether this is the standard message). The "II PLUS OR ROMCARD" means that it's recognized your system has having Applesoft BASIC in ROM instead of the older Integer BASIC; since you could add a ROM card to the original II that would give it Applesoft (or an Integer card to the II+, for that matter) it can't distinguish between a II+ (which the IIe also appears to be, since it has Applesoft in ROM) and a II with the Applesoft card. Well, having to hold down Esc to get it to work sounds like a problem to me... but I think I'd try taking out all the boards and seeing if it works without a problem that way, and if it does, putting them back in one at a time to see which one it is that doesn't like to be accelerated. I think there may have been some way to configure the Zip Chip to say which slots should be accelerated and which shouldn't, but I never had one myself, so this is just a hazy memory of secondhand knowledge... Probably the former owner either had some program that required a Videx-style card or just preferred the picture quality you get font -- much nicer than the spotty ugly standard IIe 80 column picture). But for normal use, there doesn't seem to be much point in having both installed. eric