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Ultima I

This morning I downloaded The Oregon Trail and Ultima I to play under Kegs. I spent about an hour playing Ultima I.  It plays almost as well under Kegs as it does on my Apple //c, better in some ways. 

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Kegs IIgs Emulator

This morning I had some time to look for the Kegs files on my Android.  Turns out they are buried in the Android folder under data. Once I found the Images folder, where the disk images are stored for Kegs,

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Kegs IIgs Emulator

My Android tablet is a fairly inexpensive one.  It is an iRulu 7″.  The package contained the tablet, a carrying case that has a small keyboard that plugs into the micro USB slot and a charger.  I normally don’t use

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Kegs IIgs Emulator

Today, I was looking on Google Play for an Apple II Emulator for my Android Tablet.  I was thinking, if I had an emulator I could keep on puttering with Apple II stuff in my spare time when away from

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After THE Weekend

So the big black Friday weekend is over and things slow down a little.  I have a bit of time for the Daily Apple. I checked out csa2 and there is some commentary added to the announcement of Lamb Chops,

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II in a Mac

Listening to the second episode of Open Apple, they mention an emulator for the Apple II that I had never heard of, II in a Mac. This morning I downloaded a copy and moved it over to my Mac SE. 

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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

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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. 

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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

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DOS 3.3 Copying

Yesterday I spent some time trying to copy the Dos 3.3 diskette I downloaded.  I wanted to make a copy so I would know how to do it and put together a page on it for the New User Kit.

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