[Blindapple] introduction

Tue Jul 26 12:20:05 EDT 2005

That is my favorite accessible game.  Its simple but fun.  My favorite mainstream game is final fight which I can get using the mame emulator and it'll be out for ps2 and xbox in november on the capcom classics collection but I'd really love space invaders.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jayson Smith 
  To: Blind Apple Discussions 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 5:13 AM
  Subject: Re: [Blindapple] introduction

  Hi,
  Sounds like Space Invaders to me.  Once again, I don't have this disk, but someone I talked to once had it.  Don't know if anybody here on this list still has it, but if so, we'd love to have it!
  I do wish that an emulator did support the Echo synthesizer.  It'd have to be a Windows or Linux-based emulator, but if it were to emulate an Echo card, that would give us the accessibility to Apple stuff we want through the traditional Textalker software.
  Jayson.

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Jason Brown 
    To: Blind Apple Discussions 
    Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 3:06 AM
    Subject: Re: [Blindapple] introduction

    I think it was either aliens or space invaders.  YOu listened to tones of the monster moving and you had to blast him when he got close, it used the echo synthesizer.
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Jayson Smith 
      To: Blind Apple Discussions 
      Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 3:02 AM
      Subject: Re: [Blindapple] introduction

      Hi,
      I'm not familiar with an Apple game called Aliens.  Could you perhaps mean Space Invaders, which was on a talking disk of other games?  If you do, I don't have that game, but I think someone else does, or might have once been in contact with someone who does.  Guys, I'm talking about that famous Talking Disk with Talking Writer, Typing Game and the like.  I would love to have an image of that disk!
      Anyway, what people distribute in order to share software is not ROM images but rather disk images.  The Apple used standard computer disks for its data storage.  Those computers used 5.25 inch disks which stored 140K per side, and later models used 3.5 inch disks which stored 800K per disk.  In some instances, the 3.5 disks were split into two 400K virtual disks by the operating system.
      The ROM images for the Apple computers aren't software, but rather the actual firmware inside the machine which makes the machine an Apple computer rather than an expensive paper weight.  The reason people need these ROM images is to be used with Apple emulators.  Some emulators have the ROM images built in, while others require the files.
      Jayson.

        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: Jason Brown 
        To: Blind Apple Discussions 
        Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 2:18 AM
        Subject: Re: [Blindapple] introduction

        my ex girlfriend told me that probably to discourage me.  I wanted to get a 486 so I could play the old Dick Tracy game that supported a sound source too which she thought was ridiculous, so she probably told me apples were to large for my computer table so I wouldn't try to get one for just aliens.  When I was growing up I never saw the actual machine, just used the keyboard.
          ----- Original Message ----- 
          From: Jayson Smith 
          To: Blind Apple Discussions 
          Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 11:22 PM
          Subject: Re: [Blindapple] introduction

          Hi,
          Apples are not, in fact, larger than a modern desktop.  Either you misunderstood or whoever told you that didn't know what they were talking about.  Apples do contain more parts, as the CPU itself contains no disk drives.
          The Apple IIe is larger than the IIgs.  Part of this is because the IIe case has to support a built-in keyboard, whereas the IIgs's keyboard is external.  The IIc is the smallest Apple, and the nearest thing to a laptop they ever made in the Apple II series.  With the small size, however, come some disadvantages.  There are no expansion slots, so things like the Echo must connect to serial ports on the back, of which there are only two.
          Hope this helps.
          Jayson.

            ----- Original Message ----- 
            From: Jason Brown 
            To: blindapple at jaybird.no-ip.info 
            Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 4:28 PM
            Subject: [Blindapple] introduction

            hey everyone, i first used an apple in grade school with an echo synth.  My favorite game was I think it was called aliens, and if any of you has acces to it i'd like to hear a recording of it again and even have the rom if it exists.  I don't think  it would work on an apple emyulator because i doubt they'll ever emulate the echo, but maybe it can be made to work.  Also, is there a way to make some kind of an apple2 laptop?  I've been told that apples are larger than the desktop computers of today so i don't have the room to put one in my home for only one game.  Thanks and best wishes,
            Jason.

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