Retro Gaming FTW!

A year and a half ago I bought an old apple iie off ebay since it was the first computer I ever used and pretty much started me off on the path I'm on today. Back when I did that I had meant to buy a whole bunch of old games off ebay as well (and probably still will at some point) but today I ran across an awesome website that lets me get access to them immediately! Basically it takes advantage of the tape port on the back of the Apple iie computer and I play in the audio of the game data, and walla, old games! Pretty freaking cool if you ask me :)

Website to get the games:
http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver/
http://asciiexpress.net/diskserver/

Book I referenced:
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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[jmar4life]

oh mah jesus you got a haircut!

[Urgo6667]

@jmar4life lol yup I did

[l6j8b32]

The old games like that are so addictive, I wish I had pac man or breakout on my cell phone.

[Urgo6667]

@l6j8b32 there's a pacman app for android

[Dunndeer]

I used to have a Commodore Vic20 All it's programs and games where on Tape...

you could connect up the 5 1/4 disk drive from my Commodore 128 and it would load games off the disks they where SS SD disks course I always notched them so you had two sides 500KB in total... you could store your entire game Library on one tape I personally liked the cartridge Rom games you could get an EPROM and load a game from a console onto your cartridge

[djimpacto]

bonito ordenador

[KittenKoder]

It's actually quite possible to get almost all old computers to communicate with new computers in this manner, it can be done with a handshake method. Just to show my inner geek. All it takes is a bit of code on both ends to get the to understand the data.

[brobert1451]

If you have a super serial card, you can try the original apple game server. Requires java and a null modem cable. Advantages: Faster, supports a few disk-based games. Disadvantages: Slightly more finicky, but once you get it working you can also use stuff like ADT Pro to transfer disk images. Fun!

[132L7]

@Urgo6667 I might have to get the audio version as well. That sounds awesome.

[TheMangoGuy]

Quite interesting, haha.

[Urgo6667]

@permissionmag :)