My New Old Apple IIe Computer
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My New Old Apple IIe Computer
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Re: My New Old Apple IIe Computer
#2You mentioned that your "4" and "R" keys are missing. I have Apple IIe keycaps I don't need, so let me know and I can send them to you.
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#3You mentioned that your "4" and "R" keys are missing. I have Apple IIe keycaps I don't need, so let me know and I can send them to you.
Amazing! Just followed you on Twitter, and I'll DM you there :) Thank you!
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#4You mention that you don't have any games for your Apple II. If you go the used game route and want to get the full experience be sure to check out Wizardry and Zork!
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#5You mention that you don't have any games for your Apple II. If you go the used game route and want to get the full experience be sure to check out Wizardry and Zork!
Will do! Someone also just turned me onto this site: https://asciiexpress.net/diskserver/ where you can connect your laptop or phone's headphone jack with a 3.5mm audio cable to the Apple II cassette-in port, and just play the audio files to transfer over games and other software. This is the magic I was hoping for.
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#6I totally agree with you about the awesomeness of the software manuals from the time. The whole aesthetic is so much warmer then it is now.
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#7It's not an Apple IIe without MECC software! Including that most famous of MECC titles, The Oregon Trail, which is about as synonymous with the Apple IIe in xennials' minds as Super Mario Bros. is with the NES.
I also recommend Terrapin Logo for more programming fun.
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#8The easiest and fastest way to get software onto your new beloved:
Search the internet for the FTP Apple Asimov server (there are http mirrors if you don’t want you use ftp). This is an archive of many thousands of Apple diskette images and software.
Download stuff from the archive onto an SD card. Then purchase an SD to Apple disk emulator card (plugs into one of those 7 slots and emulates an Apple disk drive). You can load software from the sd card onto the Apple just as if each file from Asimov were a real 5.25” diskette.
Also pick up one of these:
https://www.cbmstuff.com/proddetail.php?prod=WiModem232OLED
You can connect your Apple to WiFi and then essentially telnet to one off the many BBS servers that are still running. Actually you can telnet to anything on the Internet at that point. You just need to load terminal emulation software, like Ascii Express (often abbreviated as AE or AE Express), onto the Apple first.
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#9I totally agree with you about the awesomeness of the software manuals from the time. The whole aesthetic is so much warmer then it is now.
Because there were no websites, blogs, podcasts, or other sources of information about these devices, the manuals had to be thorough.
You should see how amazing the manual for my Amdek monitor is, or the Grappler + graphics card for the Apple // (allows you to print graphics from your Apple // to a dot matrix printer):
https://apple2online.com/web_documents/Orange%20Micro%20Grap...
If you were lucky, other authors may have published books of various quality and you MIGHT be able to but a copy at your book store if you even knew to ask about it.
Or you might connect to knowledgeable people through a bbs or user group to learn some tricks. Magazines helped... a little.
But there simply was a dearth of information as compared to the resources of today.
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#10The easiest and fastest way to get software onto your new beloved: Search the internet for the FTP Apple Asimov server (there are http mirrors if you don’t want you use ftp). This is an archive of many thousands of Apple diskette images and software. Download stuff from the archive onto an SD card. Then purchase an SD to Apple disk emulator card (plugs into one of those 7 slots and emulates an Apple disk drive). You…
Wow, I'll definitely be picking up both of those cards. Thanks for the tips. I had a feeling the serial card would be my ticket to the Internet, rather than the impressive-looking, but clearly past-its-prime modem card.