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- pewpfite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Ooooh, lets have a nerdfight over whether to use // or ][ to denote the roman numeral 2. Get your geek on 1977 style!
- SteveDeGroof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10If I remember correctly, it was ][ ][+ //e //c //gs ///
Did I miss any? - RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Sweet. Loading Call of Duty onto the Apple ][ would have taken forever if I had to copy it to floppies first.
- Teazo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It'd be so darn cool if someone archived mp3's of all the old cassette games out there.
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Does this mean I can load Lemonade Stand, Oregon Trail, and that next to impossible space shuttle simulator again? Sweeet.
- SectorNation, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Dugg because I still own Apple ]['s.
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6For a more simple way to do something sort of similar for C64/Apple II/Tandys/Timexs/Ataris, you can connect the cassette tape cable to your soundcard and play back a recording of the original tape, or "save" to the host computer via the line-in.
I was even able to "compress" the audio for a CoCo-2 by using very low sampling rates. - Asterus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It was ][, ][+, //e, //c, IIgs, IIe (Platinum), and IIc Plus, in order of release. The Apple /// doesn't really belong in the list since it was a different architecture that ran Apple II software via emulation.
- tmcpheeters, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Oregon Trail Disk Image: http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/roms/otrail.zip
- LoadStar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is cool. Is there a similar technique for sending stuff to a Commodore 64?
- mercano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I thought ][ was used for the Apple ][ the /'s were used for the Apple ///.
- Caulfield, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Alspass."
- EricAnderton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm assuming that you're talking about the technique demonstrated in the article... did you even read it?
"This is a java (v1.5) program that will all you to send games directly to an old apple // computer (//e enhanced with SSC, //c or //gs) with no need for floppies, and especially without the need for any special hardware other than a serial cable."
There's *zero* emulation involved here as the apple downloads the software from the PC over the serial cable and runs them natively/locally. This should include your "killer word processing apps". - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Awesome!
I just got my Apple //e hooked up to my PC to copy files to floppies, I've been playing the original Castle Wolfenstein for like three days now. Oregon Trail is next... - grayskies, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"This is cool. Is there a similar technique for sending stuff to a Commodore 64?"
Yeah, they discussed it on hack a day where it was originally posted. Check in the comments section.
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000143073710/#comments - djdole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Digg if for nothing else, then for "Moon Patrol" insanely addictive game.
Hole, JUMP!, rock, SHOOT!,....hole,hole, JUMP! JUMP!,....hole,rock...SHOOT!JUMP!......ALIENS! AHHHHHH!
"E"...."J"..."O"...."T"...Oh my god there's the "Z"! *dies*
What a great old-school game.
I think I even remember seeing it as a arcade cocktail table game.
Flashbacks are fun! - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2First of all, to wernst:
You are a god amongst men. Wow! A Beagle Bros employee? I don't mean to be a slobbering fanboy, but damn. I mean, damn.
Beagle Bros made my Apple ][+ perform frickin' MAGIC tricks. The first time I saw text and graphics dancing together on the screen, or replacing my CATALOG command with a nice CAT... DOS BOSS was the most fun thing I ever bought.
I loved the fact that back when every disk came with pounds of copy protection, Beagle Bros disks could be backed up with a simple copy command. Ironically, even though they weren't copy protected, my friends and I always paid for our Beagle Bros software, even when we were pirating everything else with Nibbles Away or whatever.
I still have my peeks and pokes chart from back in the day. You guys did more than provide infinite hours of entertainment, your stuff hooked me and led me into a lifelong love of computers.
I know this is gushing, but if anyone deserves it, it's Beagle Bros. THANK YOU.
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Oh yeah, and ADT works brilliantly. That's the program I've been using to copy my images to floppies. paradroid, if you are planning to back up your disks, check the asimov ftp archive and see if they are up there already, you may find them there. - phoque, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My father owns one with third party floppy-disc drives and a third party floppy-drive controller wich cost like a fortune at that time... I used to play moonpatrol on it :-D
- freebirdpat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There was a really cool game I had on my IIgs, it was called "Destination: Mars" it was really cool, had you have to use a map and things that came in the gamebox and was on about 10 or so disks. It was probably the most complex game I had that I never really got into as much as I wanted to.
- EricAnderton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I did recall that someone came up with a way to talk to the C64 directly from the PC via the parallel port. I did some googling and dug up this amazing site:
http://www.protovision-online.com/
They have information about flash cartridges and more - I'm sure there's something on there that might work for ya. ;) - wernst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Take it from a former Beagle Bros employee (that should make some brains hurt): your prized collection of cracked games is insignificant to the huge library of Apple II game disk images out there on the Internet. Many of the disk images still have the "Cracked by..." screens you remember, but these images are probably in perfect shape, in contrast to your 20-year old diskette.
I probably have 200 or 300 of those old game disks (most of them illegal copies made back in the day), but most of the time I actually download a disk image from an FTP site and make a "new" disk on the spot. Or copy it to a RAMDISK, where possible.
Anyway, to answer your question, you want a program called ADT, which uses a serial connection between an Apple II and a PC to transfer disks/disk images.
Now if what you have are lots of AppleWorks or AppleWriter files you just want transferred to a PC, there are people out there willing to do it for a modest fee, including myself. wernst at gmail dot com. - ReaperUnreal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, now I've got a real use for my Apple //e. Good thing I didn't throw it out!
- kuya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was sad to move from a //gs to a 486... but I couldn't afford a Quadra.
- uownedge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very cool! I still have my //e, and now I have an excuse to dig up the power adapter and hook it up to something :D
- colonelpanic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll have to bust out my old //c now. Way cool.
- djNullSpace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It was sarcasm, sorry. Should have included a disclaimer. Why in the hell would anyone want to go back to using an old word processing program, etc?
- djdole, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That old version is the BEST.
Especially when played on a color TV! You think it's going to be monochrome black and white, until helicopters start exploding and men start falling to their red,green & blue splattering deaths.
Ahhhh the early video-game gore. :-]
Apple ruined the game when they put it on the iPods.
They didn't even bother to include the little man-pyramid building animation!
Such a disappointment. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1JibberJabber is all over the front page of digg this week. Good job!
- krakelohm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Moonpatrol rocked! Anyone remember the animation program Fantavision? (http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/the_ring/application_pages/fantavision.html)
- remillard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1AppleWrite for the win!!! ;-)
- fuze44, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Apple // forever!!!
- pbrooks100, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Bummer! My dad gave away my old IIgs Wozniak Edition at Christmas. It collected dust on his desk since I finished college in 86. I think I still have my Apple ImageWriter II. Any tools / hacks for that?!
- lemac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Excellent find!
- remillard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is very cool. We used to have an Apple ][+ (and added a whopping 16 *k* of RAM once) and now I managed to snag a //c off of someone on Freecycle. I'm going to have to try this out. I've used the Apple emulators with luck before but this will be cool to run it on the original hardware.
- xbasilx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1apple ][ has my favorite game of all time: sabotage
- diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1they prolly watch the spy page.
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Bah, just use the online Apple // emulator: http://virtualapple.org/ (IE required)
- macfanboi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Oh SNAP! Must be a slow day on digg.
- paradroid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anyone know how to go the other way, load floppies from the Apple //e to a Windows machine? I've got two disk boxes full of cracked games that I'd love to archive for posterity.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I never owned a slash slash e.
- thedonquixote, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Man, how do you get to these posts so fast?
- djNullSpace, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Why does everyone use emulators like this for games? Why not for the killer word processing apps, or even graphic design? Such one-track minds... :D
- JasonHilton, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2This was on hackaday allmost 2 days ago.
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