Monthly Archives: May 2013

Ultima

After yesterday’s fairly long post, I loaded up Ultima. Wow, it has been years since I played last.  I played for about an hour.  The graphics are pretty crude and the sound affects are downright annoying, but I strangely enjoyed myself. 

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Using a Mini Harddrive

If you have a 800K 3 1/2″ disk drive on your Apple II, you have a mini harddrive.  The Apple II is best known for  140K 5 1/4″ diskette drives, although it could be used without one by using a cassette tape

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Emulation and Age

As I get older, the eyes aren’t what they used to be.  Can you say trifocals?  I can still drive without them, but its easier to wear them on long drives. My Apple //c has a 9″ monitor, which by

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