Subj : Re: Apple //e w0rld
To   : Spectre
From : paulie420
Date : Mon Jun 19 2023 05:40:22

 Sp> Some of that is "interesting" and some is pretty normal :)  With 6
 Sp> floppies you'll be able to mount up almost all the floppies for Ultima
 Sp> V. Haven't been there in uhmm maybe 30 years.  The 1mb card is mildly
 Sp> interesting, problem with those things is not much will actually utilise
 Sp> it.  Its not like your 65c02 can address it. AppleWorks will load stuff
 Sp> onto it, otherwise it mostly looks like a ramdrive. Over here we don't
 Sp> tend to see to many IIe accelsiorators, so thats always spiffy.

So I don't think I have a 1MB RAM expansion... there is an external RAMCharger unit, which documentation sayes it was for a 1MB RE... but nowhere to be found; the RAMCharger sounded kind of antiquated anyway. (As if ALL of this stuff isn't... LOL.)

Yea, the TransWarp IS pretty cool - it was tripping me up earlier, tho; while using asciiexpress.net or ADTPro, you must turn it off or the audio LOAD doesn't work properly. Sometimes it amazes me at HOW one figures that type of thing out - this doesn't w0rk, prod here, try this... etc.

 Sp> The media alternatives to look for, are the FloppyEmu, its your SD card
 Sp> image based drive emulator, although it only mounts one image at a time.
 Sp> Mebbe a CFFA3000, but I don't know that these are still available and not
 Sp> having one, can't comment on it to much, its meant to be pretty much
 Sp> swiss army knife though.  The last would be an MDT, Micro Drive Turbo. 
 Sp> Its a HD emulation using CF cards.

Yea, I've seen the Big Mess o' Wires FloppyEmu and it looks OK... I appreciate you mentioning the CFFA3000 - this, altho it costs a lot and isn't open-source, sounds like the better option. I'll have to do a bit more research, as the MDT is a fraction of the price and does most of what the CFFA3000 does... one day, one day - like next week if my GF doesn't ask too many questions!

 Sp> I'll vouch for the floppulator and the MDT having both.  On a IIe
 Sp> probably worth having a look at Apple II Desktop.  Its a gui on top of
 Sp> ProDOS for a //c or IIe.  Otherwise you have CLI ProDOS, or DOS3.3, the
 Sp> rest of the possibilities are thinner on the ground, CP/M if you have a
 Sp> Z80 card, USCD pascal there's not much else off hand.

I've been using ProDOS 2.4.2... so I'm already noticing something w/ graphics - I tried Apple II Desktop; I thought the version I found (asciiexpress.net) wasn't in English, but after booting a couple games I noticed that it was actually my screen or the graphics; it seems like its missing every-other column, or missing some columns at the very least. Maybe I'm not booting in 80 column mode, but that doesn't make sense b/c all softwares booted right from a disk... hmmmm. Have to figure that out. (All text modes, both 40 and 80 column, display perfectly... and whats weird is I think *some* graphics I've loaded looked correct; like thru a BASIC program, or 'Apple Presents...' disks...

Thanks for chatting about IIe's - I'm enjoying learning a bit about these systems. These were popular when I was in grade school and I want to get a bunch of software that I remember from that time. w00t w00t!



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