Look at what I got this morning - from 1984 to 2009

HudsonArcade said:
What games can't you play on it?! :)

Someone wrote a 'simple' progam that you can type in on the console of an Apple II to transfer disk images from a 'modern' computer over the serial port, and it'll write the image back to disk... very useful for dumping old software back to floppies, but since most of the cool games had 'hard' protection (ie, laser holes, half/quarter/spiral tracking, etc) it won't work for everything....
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This has been mentioned to me before and I am looking into it. Sounds awesome. I have a few games now, Choplifter, Castle Wolfenstein, Captain Goodnight, Karateka, etc. These are some of my all time favorite games and keep me busy whenever I drop them in. Finding games on floppies, though, is getting harder and harder.
 
ParrotHead said:
This has been mentioned to me before and I am looking into it. Sounds awesome. I have a few games now, Choplifter, Castle Wolfenstein, Captain Goodnight, Karateka, etc. These are some of my all time favorite games and keep me busy whenever I drop them in. Finding games on floppies, though, is getting harder and harder.
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What about Drol? That was easily one of the coolest Apple II games, ever. Also, if you had the patience and time to put into it, Below the Root was an excellent adventure game. Wizardry was also something that took hours and hours of my time. Loderunner, too.

A game I never understood the allure of was the Zork series. Text D&D. Yawn!

- M1A
 
M1A said:
What about Drol? That was easily one of the coolest Apple II games, ever. Also, if you had the patience and time to put into it, Below the Root was an excellent adventure game. Wizardry was also something that took hours and hours of my time. Loderunner, too.

A game I never understood the allure of was the Zork series. Text D&D. Yawn!

- M1A
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Oh, ya, Wizardry Proving Grounds was awesome! I will have to hunt that one down again. Drol and Loderunner were also both great.
 
Drol was pretty kick ass. Airheart, Load Runner, Choplifter, Hard Hat Mack, Monta Zuma's Revenge, Boulder Dash, Wings of Fury, and last but not least was a great port of Mario Brothers were some of my favorites.
 
VectorJunkie said:
Drol was pretty kick ass. Airheart, Load Runner, Choplifter, Hard Hat Mack, Monta Zuma's Revenge, Boulder Dash, Wings of Fury, and last but not least was a great port of Mario Brothers were some of my favorites.
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Oh yeah, Montezuma's Revenge was really good. And the arcade remakes were actually pretty excellent: Moon Patrol, Dig Dug, Mario Bros., Robotron - all those and more are consistently on eBay for sale new in box for cheap.

- M1A
 
discgolfer72 said:
damn now im going to have to unack my old 2c color and set it upp in te game room
hmmmmm i wonder thik ill build a 2c arcae cab
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Just make sure you use a Star Wars Cab for your Apple IIc cab.....lol.....;)

Personally, my fav computer was the Commodore 64. A lot of time wasted on that puppy growing up.


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Oh my God the memories...

Holy crap... it is junior high all over again!

I remember taking a programming class on the IIc and IIe. I can still write a wicked math tutoring program in basic. Damn I wish I would have stuck with it! I played the crap out of Drol and Space Eggs.

My most vivid memory... sitting in our math lab after school with 6 or 8 other guys trying to beat space eggs when we hear a rap on the window. I look over and there is my mother standing outside, pounding on the window. Talk about embarrasing. Once again I had forgotten to call home after school and she came looking for me. Appearantly she had walked around the entire school looking in windows trying to find me. She found me. She wasn't happy. I was told if I did it again I was walking home. Forever. There ended my after school activities.
 
Spy Hunter port wasn't bad, either, but I did log a lot of Mario Bros. hours on mine, which is still in a box in the garage - my first computer.

I LOVED Wings of Fury. Got a cheap "flight" stick just to play that thing. Worked out awesome.

Then I figured out how to plug it into my TV for color. The skys opened up and the angels started singing.

I also liked Rescue Raiders, played a lot of Tapper, Lode Runner, Archon, and probably a bunch more I've forgotten now.

Oh yeah, Lemonade Stand, baby! :D

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Nice score - I never did the Apple thing, I was into my Atari 800 at that time, but it's great to see a bit of history unboxed like that...
 
havok69 said:
Nice score - I never did the Apple thing, I was into my Atari 800 at that time, but it's great to see a bit of history unboxed like that...
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My first computer was the Atari 400 with the membrane keyboard and a cassette recorder. :)
 
My first....

Sadly, I never owned a computer when I was young. My best friend had a TRS-80 we used to spend hours on, and my girlfriend had an old C64 with the cassette player. She was into this crappy bio-rhythm program. I played zaxxon.
 
I learned BASIC programming on the //c and wrote a few cool games on it -- which have long since been lost. :(

I also became pretty decent using a Koala Pad. (I was budding artist at the time.)

And +1 on the C64 love. I remember wasting a good bit of one summer with my friends playing Track & Field on it.
 
The IIe is what got me into software development. Learned BASIC on that machine (1983). Still have it and a //c and an old Apple II as well. I had the duo-disk (dual disks that set on top of the IIe - sandwiched between the monitor and computer case). An extended 80-column card with 128k RAM (bank switched 64K as I recall). Always wanted a hard drive but they were really expensive back then. The memories. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series

Still have lots of old software, too.
 
Nice pick up! Just watched a documentary on Apple called Welcome to Macintosh.
The doc was excellent, available via Netflix Instant Queue. I'm a big Mac Geek so this video you posted was great stuff!
 
we had a bunch of plain apple II's at my jr. high school, then they phased into mac's. never really played much on them aside from space invaders in the classroom, used to play most everything on my c64.
 
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Apple ]['s rock. First computer I ever used (at the Boulder Public Library in 1979/1980).

Actually my first computer was a C64 followed by a //c and //e... Then getting in trouble with the feds shut me down until I turned 21 (in 1991) when I bought myself a 486/66.

Jon
 
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