My Apple IIGS booting today... Running Wheel of Fortune on a 5 1/4" floppy.

This is my Apple IIgs booting up. It was made in 86 or 87, which makes it only 22 years old... I love the thing but it is hard to find software (I need GAMES!) for it. There are people out there making compact flash card setups to transfer files over, but they're a bit pricey (over $100..)

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Apple
• Apple II
• Apple IIGS
• Old Computer
• 80s
• Steve Jobs

[brandonefron2064]

I used to play a Learning Company game on an Apple IIGS at my League City Elementary School but now they switched to Windows XP instead. I want a Wheel of Fortune CD-ROM Game for my Dell Inspiron M140 Laptop (THQ still makes WoF for the Nintendo Wii but requires WiiSpeak) so I could get in on the WoF Action at home and at Mimi Butcher's house while she is watching her favorite gameshow on CBS. There is also a WoF Game online at the Sony Pictures Website that requires Adobe Flash Player.

[biffrapper]

Where's the music?

[tovara22]

I remember that loud "Bzzzzzzz" ("Bad Disk" Sound)...All too fondly!

[g8crapachino]

@mostinho9 Not really, the stock systems themselves only go for $200~$300 on ebay. Rare peripherals like Accelerators cards, certain SCSI controllers, Superdrive controller etc. actually sell for much, much more.

[mostinho9]

u could sell that thing for lots of money...it's an antique now :D

[TommyA1912]

Nice "bong".

[FalconGhia]

Seeing how easy you've won the game you must be a "returning champion", that's for sure! ;-)

[JayDashef]

I used to have this game on my old Apple IIc, and I heard that same loud buzzing sound while loading (you hear it after the intro screen and music plays). That used to scare me as a kid, which was unfortunate because it had such great games!

[Manimal347]

I bet you know this by now, but you can hook up a standard 5 1/4" II+/IIe disk drive to a PC clone via the serial port. Special software will then let you write out standard/emulator disk images of cracked or non-protected software.

[madmax2069]

@lordbemylight and if you hear no sound even if you have the volume turned up the earphone jack is messed up (you still can hear sound if you use a set of earphones). the jack is called a switching jack (relies on contacts inside to touch to reroute sound to the internal speaker). and if its not making the proper connection inside the jack (when nothing is plugged in ) you will not get the internal speaker to work (unless you bypass the switch).