Yearly Archives: 2014

No Serial Ports

I haven’t posted in months, six months in fact. I had a problem develop a couple of months ago with AdtPro.  It stopped recognizing the serial ports. The problem seemed to be with Java so over time, I uninstalled Java

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Kansas Fest

This whole week is just me wishing I was there.  I anxiously await the Kansas Fest report on csa2 each day.  Its not like being there, but as close as I can get at this time. Warren Ernst on csa2,

Posted in Apple //c, Apple //gs, Apple IIe

Another No Slot Clock

Last night I ordered another No Slot Clock chip for my Apple //e.  I had planned to buy one last fall when I got one and tried it out on my Apple //c.  This one was about 65 cents cheaper

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I’m Back

I’m back.  I have no special reason or excuse for not posting, I just haven’t posted in a day under a month.  I signed into Daily Apple to find 2,308 comments, or more accurately spam.  After spending about twenty minutes

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Flapple Bird – Memory?

I went to the Flapple Apple github website and downloaded the latest version.  I moved a copy through ADTPro to my Apple //c and tried that again today. I was thinking after the last post that maybe I was having

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Flapple Bird – Retry Again

In my last post, I went back to ADTPro 1.2.8, downloaded Flapple Bird and tried running it, only to have it lock up. Since that didn’t work, I downloaded ADTPro 2.0.0 and redownloaded Flapple Bird.  That didn’t work either. With that

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Flapple Bird – Retry

The last time I had a chance to try Flapple Bird, I downloaded it using ADTPro 2.0.0 both in the 140 K image and the 800 K image and both images would boot ProDOS 8 v1.8 and stop at the

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Flapple Bird

I’ve seen several postings announcing Flapple Bird, an arcade style game for the Apple II.  I looked at the posted video and was intrigued. I downloaded it to my Linux laptop and tried it in AppleWin and liked it.  I

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vintage.excited-geek

I’ve spent the last few days working on a Macintosh project and starting a new blog and website. The project involved my attempt to upgrade the memory in my Macintosh SE.  It has 2MB and I was going to upgrade

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Robotron 2084, ‘New Apple 2c user needs help plz’

Robotron 2084 was downloaded from MacGui as well.  I tested it in AppleWin and one of the early screens shows the keyboard commands. I downloaded it to my Apple //c using ADTPro 1.2.8 onto a disk I have used before. 

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