Apple II Game Server

So I FINALLY got this working without a hitch, it never worked on this old Compaq LTE but on my mac, here it is in all it's 8-bit glory.

Oh, and here is that video I referenced of the Apple IIc playing the Mozart Sonata In C Major: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPDBbOQdYvU

Enjoy. Apple II Forever!!

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Science & Technology

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• Apple
• II
• 1mhz

[idahofur]

These remind me of two apple computers I saw at goodwill in pocatello idaho about a 1 year ago. I was waiting for the price to go down on them. But I thought they ended up chucking them. The guy took them to the back room for I assume not being sold. But heck that pretty much looked like the setup. LOL

[iamdigitalman2]

Yeah, that setup has been torn apart, as I needed the space in the room. The IIes are now on their sides up against the wall, and the monitor and drives are connected to my IIgs, which sits next to my IIc.

[Ratznium]

What I see there is a binary transfer from the desktop to the Apple 2. From what I can tell, that's the menu program itself in raw hex.

At the end of that string of hexadecimal, there is most likely a RUN command. If you change RUN to "BSAVE HELLO,1" and put in a blank disk - then the menu program will load from the disk on bootup and ought to 'connect' to your server.

(If you didn't know - BSAVE means binary save)

[hittman3054sho]

Dude can you or someone help me to remmber a game for apple 2? It was a text based game, but with pictures. You started off on an island..then you had to make a fire, then some pirates came to pick you up. Then you end up in luxemberg i think..and i cant remmeber too much besides that. It was those games, where you just typed in what you wanted to do. " Go NW, SW,S,N, etc, or Grab rock. Throw rock, etc." It had pictures, and would describe the surrounding area. PLEAASE some one know the name?

[brobert1451]

I know. Hope you're able to get your //c in shape :-) I was posting that comment above to help any other surfers out there who might stumble into this long into the future...

[iamdigitalman2]

I know. You emailed me about that. I have yet to beta test it since my IIc has been dismantled for almost 2 months now, but I can't wait to use it!!

[brobert1451]

AGS 3.0 is due to drop really soon, and it is significantly improved (hi-res based menu with screenshots, search, etc) and also has full support for all apple //s (including //gs!)

[iamdigitalman2]

Yeah, I have that running on my IIc which sits on my desk. I also run the A2Gs. I picked the IIc because of it's size and it can fit on my desk, so the two IIes have been pretty much abandoned as of now. I also just dismantled my IIgs for the same reasons. I might set them back up some day, buy a serial switchbox (or more USB to DB9 adapters and the right cables, now that I know what works). They both have SSC cards in them, and the IIgs has built in serial, so that will not be a problem.

[Quag7]

If you check out my videos, I have my Apple //e running as a Linux terminal, which is pretty easy to do. This server is interesting; I didn't know it existed, and it looks pretty convenient.

Until now I have been using something called ADTPro which works similarly - except it dumps games across a serial cable to the Apple disk drive (so you have a permanent bootable disk).

You can also just drop an Uthernet Ethernet card into the Apple, and use Contiki to browse the web, chat on IRC, etc.

[fossdud3]

yeah, that's conceivable. you would need to write some extensive code on the OS X side that would handle the complicated TCP/IP stuff and present a simpler interface to an app on the apple ][. then you could get functional internet (clent or server) on the apple ][.

internet = worms

os x box = mama bird

apple ][ = baby bird