Two game recommendations Odyssey (text based adventure game), and Archon (kind of like chess).
Archon was fun. Also recommend Elite (and google the history- it was quite a programming feat at the time).
My New Old Apple IIe Computer
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#42Great piece.
Haven't seen Beagle Bros mentioned. Their awesome catalogs:
https://stevenf.com/beagle/contents.html
Also haven't seen mentioned Pinball Construction Set- an absolutely amazing piece of engineering, by Bill Budge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set
Last I checked, Budge was still working- for Google- on the V8 runtime. Think he is on twitter.
And while there are a lot of 6502 assembly resources around online, fondly remembered books on 6502 assembly and graphics programming (still have em):
https://www.amazon.com/High-resolution-Graphics-Animation-As...
https://books.google.com/books/about/Hi_res_Graphics_for_the...
Super cool memories from my childhood.
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#43I have an Apple ][+ that stopped working a few years ago, and I don’t have the time to fix it up. I don’t want to throw it out, as it seems a piece of history (and it’s the computer I grew up using so there’s some nostalgia...). I have all the original manuals and some floppies with it.
Anyone know of good places to find it a home? Any groups of vintage Apple users to post it to, or something like that?
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#44> Some wizards at work told me that I probably cannot just plug this into a modern phone line and expect it to work, though. Is this true? I can't think of any immediate reason it would fail, but finding something to actually dial into seems like a harder problem.
Would depend on the local loop as far as I know a traditional modem should work on POTS.
Re: My New Old Apple IIe Computer
#45I have an Apple ][+ that stopped working a few years ago, and I don’t have the time to fix it up. I don’t want to throw it out, as it seems a piece of history (and it’s the computer I grew up using so there’s some nostalgia...). I have all the original manuals and some floppies with it. Anyone know of good places to find it a home? Any groups of vintage Apple users to post it to, or something like that?
Try your local university cs department. They'd love a piece of history like that. Mine has a few of those pieces in a display case for everyone to come and see.
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#46The 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…
Thank you for this!! I’ve got a IIe and Classic in my parents basement (where I used to spend a lot of time as a kid...) that I’ve been meaning to have shipped to me. This would be a fun project.
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#47I still dabble with electronics, read paper books, drive a car (even have flown small airplanes) etc., but after having spent countless hours playing first-person computer games, using simulators, and reading text on the computer screen my perspective has gradually shifted and I now can't help seeing many artifacts (and not only) as poor incarnation of their ideal selves that live in a virtual world.
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#48That was my exact kit growing up. My mom was a freelance translator for a time before working for data general, and she bought this for working. Like our school machines but more memory and less color..
When she wasn’t working my brothers and I could use it write papers / software and play games.
A joystick would be a helpful addition. Apple joysticks are really analog (basically two game paddles together) which make them interesting.
I still remember (I think) how to get the screen to cycle colors.
10 hgr
20 For I = 1 to 7
30 hcolor = i
40 hplot 0,0
50 call 62454
60 next I
The Apple II time warp podcasts is not often updated and kinda fun too
https://appletimewarp.libsyn.com/apple-time-warp-podcast-epi...
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I would recommend Lode Runner as well!
I had hundreds of (mostly pirated) games for my II and Lode Runner was my favorite. Also, Karateka, Pinball Construction Set, and Zaxxon. May as well add Choplifter, the original Ultima, Wizardry, and Castle Wolfenstein.
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#50$95 for a new power supply?
Should have shelled out for a soldering iron or station, pliers, new caps, which might have ended up cheaper in the long run (or not)