I saw a reference to a new podcast about the Apple II called Apple Time Warp Podcast on A2Central last week and tonight I took the time to watch and listen to their pilot episode. John Romero and Craig Johnston talk…
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Prince of Persia
I’ve seen the movie and decided to try the game. I found a copy of it on Asimov and downloaded it to my Apple //c. I got the 800K .2mg version since I have a 3 1/2 inch drive figuring…
Forbidden Castle
I’ve been lost on Forbidden Castle, playing that is. What little time I’ve had for the Apple II was spent playing the opening of Forbidden Castle and trying to get around the Ogre.
Old Games, More Asteroids Etc.
I tried playing Asteroid in AppleWin and the screen was blurry, so I tried several different settings until I found one that worked for me, Monochrome (White). Although I like Asteroid, eye hand coordination is not my strongest suit, so…
Old Games, Asteroid
Along the lines of last nights post I was looking at some more Apple II games. It took only a short time to find one that was interesting. I found a copy of Asteroid on Apple2Online tonight. It is much…
Old Games
I’ve played computer games since the late 1970’s and the thing that is really remarkable is how addictive they can be. Each level of technology that we run our games through has its own amount of addictiveness. Some of the…
No Slot Clock, Brief Revisit
I fired up my Apple //c tonight and thought I would check out my No Slot Clock. I wanted to make sure it was still working, so I loaded up Appleworks and saved a file. Appleworks didn’t ask for a…
Missing Link, Return to the Apple II
I noticed a glaring omission on my part this morning. I have not posted a link to Mac GUI, my host on the Macintosh side, so I’ve corrected it today. I’ve had fun digging out my Macs and working with…
Macintosh Connectivity, Network First Steps, Continued
I copied the Network Software Installer file that I downloaded from the MacSE to the ZIP disk for the MacPlus. After booting the MacPlus I double clicked in the NSI file to unwrap it. When that was done I double…
Macintosh Connectivity, Network First Steps
I did some more reading on the internet today and found some notes here and there that said networking on the 68K Macintoshes could be accomplished between two Macintoshes by the simple expedient of connecting them with a printer cable…
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