[Blindapple] an introduction

[JM Casey]

Hello everyone. I’m new.

 

I used to use an Apple II E in the late 80s and early 90s. I was pretty young then. I’ve been a PC guy for a long time now, but someone recently sent me the Mess emulator and Apple II-E Extended rom along with a lot of disk images, and I found the address for this list in the archive. It’s really neat that people are doing this. So far I’ve had success in getting Apple + Echo emulation a few times, but the emulator is just as likely, it seems, to hang my Windows 10 machine. Well, at least it works at all. I must say, hearing that Echo voice again after so many years is uncanny. I forgot how much that guy sounds like he’s singing, especially in extended speech mode.

 

I always wanted to learn properly how to programme in Applesoft Basic back in the day. I picked up a few tricks, mostly from looking at other programmes. It’s all coming back to me now. Weird, and cool.

 

Anyone have any tips on getting the emulator to work consistently? I haven’t yet figured out the pattern of the hanging. So far I haven’t gotten a single prodos disk image to work, but I don’t know if there’s something I’m missing or what? Is the command line for running the prodos disk images the same? To be perfectly honest, I mostly just want to play the Eamon games. The port for PC is nice but it won’t work on Windows 10, to my knowledge. 

 

Please excuse this rambling message. I’m just feeling a real nostalgic wash about all this at the moment. Cheers.

 

 

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