After brief tantalum tantrums, my #apple2e is back up and running with a Big Mess o Wires "Floppy Emu".

#retroComputing #classicApple #retroComputers #8bitComputing #8bitMicro

Uh oh! Trouble on the 12V rail! I turned my #Apple2e on today, it beeped, then turned off making a cheeping noise from the PSU. I ripped the PSU apart but then the though occurred to me to check my board for shorts and sure enough, almost a dead short on the 12V rail, even with all its cards removed.

Oh look games! #vintage #apple2 #apple2e

Treated myself. My last Apple computer (IIe)
And my new Apple computer. #apple #apple2e #appleiie #macbookpro

I'm privileged enough to have a 2019 Macbook Pro. It's great.

So why do I lust after having an #Apple2e again, like my Dad had when I was a kid? I wrote a rudimentary word processor on that cheerful slab. It was terrible but it was mine.

Why do I keep drifting back to my #AtariSTFM which was a great working computer AND you could play #ImpossilbeMission3 on it.

Why do I feel computers are getting worse the older I get when that is simply untrue?

#TechNostalgia #RetroComputing

@NanoRaptor
That game was killer hard at 7 years old,on the Apple //e. It's still killer hard at almost 40, but it used to be, too!
#apple2e #archon #mitchhedberg

@byteshift69

But I did find this blog post from TWENTY YEARS AGOOOO hahah

https://bzangygroink.co.uk/archives/2003/01/10/twenty-years-of-apple/

#Apple #Apple2e #AppleG3 #AppleG4 #AppleTiPowerbook #PowerMac

@48kRAM

They sell a universal power supply at the link below for all the #apple2 systems but I don't know if the #apple2gs requires more power than the #apple2e power supply can supply.

https://www.reactivemicro.com/product/universal-psu-kit/

What are the best online shops for Apple II related xmas gifts? New items, like t-shirts, books, stickers, mugs, etc. I know there's a few actual retro online stores that are more than just Redbubble/CafePress portals, but I can't remember them now.

#apple2 #apple2e

Just a quick sketch of a pear using MousePaint on the Apple IIe

#retroComputing #retroComputers #8bitComputer #Apple2e #vintageComputing

@vampiress @polpo

My Dad got an #Apple2e for work when I was a kid so I learned a bit on there. Then I guess I'd be AtariST/TOS to DOS -> Win 3.11 -> Win95 -> Mac/Sytem 7 -> OS8 ->->-> Monterey.

Oh, and a bit of CP/M and #BBCBasic too! 🙂

https://www.hackster.io/news/reinhard-grafl-s-single-breadboard-computer-packs-1980s-technology-into-a-tiny-five-chip-footprint-056b0f91c17b

I want a tiny #BBCB or #Apple2e!

#Mos6502

https://www.hackster.io/news/reinhard-grafl-s-single-breadboard-computer-packs-1980s-technology-into-a-tiny-five-chip-footprint-056b0f91c17b

I want a tiny #BBCB, #Apple2e or #Commodore64

#Mos6502

@pjperez @jmechner I never played on an Apple II but, of the handful of games I tried, I think Prince of Persia and Airheart impressed me most.

PoP because I couldn't believe how close it was to the later versions on much more powerful systems and Airheart because I didn't know that Typhoon Thompson (an Amiga favourite) wasn't the original!

Any other non-janky classics I should try on the system?
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#retrogaming #retrogames #classicgames #princeofpersia #apple2e

Using a modern PC to transfer files to and from a 38 year old computer over an audio connection. What an age we live in! #retroComputing #retroComputer #apple2e #8bitComputer

@2e0rtb You have no idea how happy that pic makes me! The first computer we had was an Apple IIe, I loved it! I remember it came with a game with a bunny and carrots? Or did I dream that?

I remember writing a rudimentary drum machine program on it just using ASCII and arrays to store 8 x 16 steps. The sounds were pokes! I wouldn't even know where to start tyring to that now in MacOS or Windows.

#Apple #Apple2e

RT @EricsEdge@twitter.com

At 5:30 PM Eastern I'll be streaming some cool jazz background music while I type in the #Pascal code for an #AdventureGame on my #Apple2e from the book Programming Your Own Adventure Games In Pascal.

https://youtu.be/MztQPRO59Ew

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EricsEdge/status/1594093152327049216

Some light reading for the upcoming weekend.
#retroComputing #retroComputers #8bitComputing #Apple2e #basicProgramming

I guess when you migrate servers your old posts are just lost... so I'm posting this video again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw7nxR5WUh8

#apple2 #apple2e #SeaDragon #caiman

This is both really interesting and very, very, very far far away from being within my budget. https://www.ebay.com/itm/133153202239 #retrocomputing #appleii #apple2e