I managed to connect my Macintosh SE to one of my PCs today. The PC is running Ubuntu 13.10 and I used a cable from MacLink, which I believe is a null modem cable. I have purchased a couple of…
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Macintosh Connectivity
I’ve been looking for ways to move files from the internet to my vintage Macs. I can do it by downloading the files to my PC, copying them to a ZIP disk and then copying them off the ZIP disk.…
Another New User Kit Page
I worked on another page of my Macintosh, New User Kit today. Simply enough it is called Macintosh SE, Clean install of 6.0.8 and ZIP Driver. In order to do this page I backed up the hard drive on my…
Macintosh, The Other Apple, Continues
As I started yesterday, for the next few postings I’m going to be working on my Macs. I have found one of the biggest problems with working on vintage computers has been moving files around. There are several different ways…
Macintosh, The Other Apple
I spent today working on the other Apple, the Macintosh. In this case I was working on my Macintosh Plus. I have a Macintosh Plus with a 100MB ZIP drive from Iomega. If you look around the internet you can…
No Slot Clock, Additional Information
I found some additional information on the No Slot Clock. I was looking through the Apple II Documentation Project and there is a directory for Chips and the the No Slot Clock. You can check the link under Apple II…
AppleWin on Ubuntu, Followup
Apparently I lied. In the last step of yesterday’s post I said you could simply right click on the wine icon on the launcher and lock it to the launcher. You can, but that only locks wine and not AppleWin. …
AppleWin on Ubuntu
I’ve read notes here and there about running an Apple II emulator on a Linux machine several times over the last few years. I’ve been doing it for several months on my second laptop without any problems. I thought I…
Mapper, Debugging
I spent some time working on Mapper, starting on the debugging process. I figured the best way, was to actually use it. I chose to put the map from Eamon’s The Beginners Cave into the Mapper. I started finding problems…
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Dynasty, Hamurabi, Spyglass, Followup
I had time to try out Dynasty, the Hamurabi derivative. It has certain features that Hamurabi lacks, like in game directions and a running total of statistics. I’m not crazy about the added sound effects and the use of inverse text. …
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