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 would give a quick run down on how to do it. It’s quite simple on Ubuntu Linux. Go into the Ubuntu Software Center on the side bar and search for wine. Install the Wine Windows Program Loader.
Download AppleWin and save it to the downloads folder.
Open the AppleWin folder and extract the files, creating a folder to hold them. I used AppleWin in my home folder.
Open the new folder, right click on AppleWin.exe and choose open with Wine Windows Program Loader.
When AppleWin is running, look at the sidebar. There should be a new icon for AppleWin down near the bottom. If you want too you can right click on that icon and choose Lock to Launcher. This will let you start AppleWin by just clicking on the icon.
— (boring PC stuff to follow)
Earlier in the week I mentioned the replacement pc that came in.
I used to have an older desktop pc connected to my TV. This machine operated as a server of sorts, and if for some reason it was powered off, it sometimes was hard to get restarted. It finally gave up the ghost and I couldn’t get it restarted.
The newer pc is destined to replace the server, eventually.
That is after I find a replacement for the laptop that usually lives on my desk. I replaced the cpu fan it it recently, but it will not reliably stay on. I suspect there was some sort of heat damage.
Before this machine arrived, I had 4 pc’s:
Server: Pentium 4 desktop machine running Windows XP Professional
Desktop: Intel Core 2 Duo desktop machine running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Desktop Laptop: Intel Core 2 Duo Laptop running Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
Second Laptop: Intel Core 2 Duo Laptop running Ubuntu Linux 13.04, recently upgraded to 13.10
With the replacement, I had to give some thought to the OS, as it didn’t come with one. Windows 7, would have been the most convenient, but finding a legal copy for a reasonable price wasn’t going to happen.
I can use and work with Ubuntu Linux, so that is what I did, I installed Ubuntu 13.10 64 bit and it runs fine.
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