Retro Geek

iOS C64 Emulator

Glad to hear it's back. Think I'll wait until it's cross-platform with the iPad, but it's neat and I'll prolly git it.

Seems like a lot of sporkers could help out with this Ars thread: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1124596&sid=874b47e1bfbba5417f2b5ea16eb3ca02

ddt

I'm glad I didn't get one of those Apple ADC-to-DVI boxes. Found out it does not work with the 17" flat CRT, which runs analog and too much power, apparently. It'll have to be a pretty desk ornament until I have time to solder up this hack. Or get a Cube.

Re: Apple // paddles. Can't help myself; relapsing. My friend is trying to engage me in a particularly geeky battle to see who can flaunt the most obscure Apple hardware, and particularly from the history of the Media Lab, at our new coworking space. We each have a iLamp from an ancestor to our group. He's currently got a Mac Plus and a barely working Titanium on his desk. I've just got the 17" x-ray CRT, but the big guns are in AZ: a near-mint Fat Mac and two Apple // ... if I can figure out how to get them out here. I also think I can collect enough MessagePads from around the lab to have the complete lineup. I will mount them like bugs in a glass case and he will shut up.

Hm, how about an external Apple ]I[ floppy drive? Not that I have one... . Or a Mac with the built-in PC-on-a-board?

ddt

I tossed my PM6100 with PC card. It was cool when it was new, though.

Yep. I had one of those too. Ridiculously expensive though.

Ohhh, Apple ]|[ gear would be killer. There was a reseller back in the day, ReSun or something? that seemed to have a surplus of old Lisas and such... always tempted.

Find an Apple //c Plus (the one with the 3.5" drive instead of a 5.25" drive).

I used to use one of those in high school to record statistics for the basketball team.

... When they weren't beating you up?

The other day I found my eMate while cleaning out the house. The batteries have been shot for about 10 years now, but aren't leaking and on the power supply it still works.

And I've picked up an Apple //e with boxes of floppies up for a song about 7 years ago when they were still treated as junk. Now I see 'wanted' ads all over the place, but mine is going out of the door when I've gone too.

I have 2 or 3 Apple IIe systems sitting around. I also have my Laser 128 which I got for free from some guy last year with several boxes of accessories and software. The Laser 128 was actually better than the Apple //c because it had an IIe compatible card slot inside. I have a mouse for it, too. I want to get a SCSI card for it so I can use a hard drive and install GEOS. Hehe.

I never liked ProDOS. It seemed cold and unfriendly after Apple DOS 3.3. Never got into the IIgs with all that fancy GUI stuff. GUI's are a fad. Apple DOS is where it's at.

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... When they weren't beating you up?

They liked knowing their personal stats too much.

Ah yes, the IIgs, used to own a Woz one with the 03 ROM. Good times.

Still, Apple lost a lot of customers with the forced 'migration' to the Mac without a real upgrade path. They should have come out with the LC with a built in IIe card about 5 years earlier.

Yups. Plus, I never got why they didn't pick up //e compatibility for Mac OS in the late 90s. Emulation was more than good enough, with a little Apple magic, they could have picked up from all the schools. Ow well.

No kidding. They had usable PC emulation on Macs back in the late 80s via SoftPC.

DPBD...

Hmm. It looks like they did, actually... sort of... with the skunkworks "Gus" project.